I'm not a spy, which is the real question

I don't think it's going to be related to social or economic policies; it's going to be the fact that [Barack Obama] said let's go forward, not backward, in regard to the violations of law that occurred under the Bush administration.

By putting these sort of lines around what ideas are proper or improper, we lose things.

We've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the national surveillance agency. And they've lost sight of the fact that everything they do is supposed to make us more secure as a nation and a society.

Even if it were, you run into the same problem with international commerce: if you create a device that is famous for compromised security and it has an American back door, nobody is gonna buy it.

We decentralise the ability to decide the level of publicity that's attached to any of our communications.

I describe myself as an indoor cat, because I'm a computer guy and I always have been.