A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're seeing today.

I went to St. Petersburg - St. Petersburg is awesome.

As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

Defending ourselves from internet-based attacks, internet-originated attacks, is much, much more important than our ability to launch attacks against similar targets in foreign countries.

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.

The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works

Ever since I've been here [in Russia], my life has been consumed with work that's actually fulfilling and satisfying.