It doesn't need to be consistently concentrated in these venture-capital funds and things like that.

When it comes to the internet, when it comes to the United States' technical economy, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.

Acting Government officials, they said they wanted - they would be happy, they would love to put a bullet in my head, to poison me as I was returning from the grocery store, and have me die in the shower.

As for labeling someone a whistleblower, I think it does them - it does all of us - a disservice, because it "otherizes" us.

[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data sovereignty."

We have to argue forcefully and demand that the government recognise that these programmes do not prevent - mass surveillance does not prevent acts of terrorism.

What the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation. They want to have a perfect record of the last five years of your life, so when you come to their attention, they can know everything about you. I'm not down with that, but [Bill] Binney was trying to create something like that.