We can't simply scare people into giving up their rights, on the basis, oh, this protects us from terrorism.

We're opening the doors to people launching missiles and dropping bombs by taking the human out of the decision chain for deciding how we should respond to these threats. And this is something we're seeing more and more happening in the traditional means as our methods of warfare become increasingly automated and roboticized such as through drone warfare.

What we're seeing now, or starting to see, is an atomization of the Internet community. Before, everybody went only to a few sites; now we've got all these boutiques.

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.

I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance.

As a general rule, US-based multinationals should not be trusted until they prove otherwise. This is sad, because they have the capability to provide the best and most trusted services in the world if they actually desire to do so.