If you ask anybody at Cyber Command or look at any of the job listings for openings for their positions, you'll see that the one thing they don't prioritize is computer network defense. It's all about computer network attack and computer network exploitation at Cyber Command.

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.

What I wanted to do was give society the information it needed to decide if it wanted to change the system.

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

In liberal societies we don't typically require citizens to rearrange their activities, their lives, the way they go about their business, to make it easy for the police to do their work.

It's critical how we want to use these spy programs, these electronic capabilities, where we want to draw the line, and who should approve these programs, these decisions, and at what level, for engaging in operations that could lead us as a nation into a war.

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.