Do we want to emulate China in the way that China emulates the West? I think, for most Americans, the answer to that question would be no.

We have to be able to reject disproportionate and unjustified responses in the cyber domain just as we do in the physical domain.

Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

US administration does not want me to return. People forget how I ended up in Russia. They waited until I departed Hong Kong to cancel my passport in order to trap me in Russia, because it's the most effective attack they have against me, given the political climate in the United States.

Custom developed digital weapons, cyber weapons nowadays typically chain together a number of zero-day exploits that are targeted against the specific site, the specific target that they want to hit. But it depends, this level of sophistication, on the budget and the quality of the actor who's instigating the attack. If it's a country that's less poor or less sophisticated, it'll be a less sophisticated attack.

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

I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong.