A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.

The issue I brought forward most clearly was that of mass surveillance, not of surveillance in general.

We need the security standards to apply to the internet. We need to be able to trust that when we send our emails through Verizon, that Verizon isn't sharing with the NSA, that Verizon isn't sharing them with the FBI or German intelligence or French intelligence or Russian intelligence or Chinese intelligence.

My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.

You shouldn't send an email from a computer that's associated with you if you don't want it to be tracked back to you. You don't want to hack the power plant from your house if you don't want them to follow the trail back and see your IP address.

They [the authorities] will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night.

Going all the way back to Daniel Ellsberg, it is clear that the government is not concerned with damage to national security, because in none of these cases was there damage.