What we need to do is we need to create new international standards of behavior - not just national laws, because this is a global problem. We can't just fix it in the United States, because there are other countries that don't follow U.S. laws. We have to create international standards that say that cyber attacks should only ever occur when it is absolutely necessary.

In America, we collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.

[Sovereignty] would break the American monopoly, but it would also break Internet business, because you'd have to have a data center in every country. And data centers are tremendously expensive, a big capital investment.

In the United States, there hasn't been much legislative change on the surveillance issue, although there are some tepid proposals.

We have to decide why terrorism is a new threat. There has always been terrorism.

The question is: Particularly in the post-9/11 era, are societies becoming more liberal or more authoritarian?

If I had to guess what the future's going to look like for me - assuming it's not an orange jumpsuit in a hole - I think I'm going to alternate between tech and policy.