You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

When it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth. The technical sector is the backbone of the American economy, and if we start engaging in these kind of behaviors, in these kind of attacks, we're setting a standard, we're creating a new international norm of behavior that says this is what nations do. This is what developed nations do.

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.

There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called proxy chains where they gain access to a number of different systems around the world, sometimes by hacking these, and they use them as sort of relay boxes.

I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American.

I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.

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