I went to a website the other day and right at the top of the page it showed me my ip address. It was the most disturbing moment I have ever experienced. This website even told me what internet browser I was using, and what day it was. Computers can do anything.

I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.

I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.

For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

I don't think I have committed a crime outside the domain of the US.

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

The [George W.] Bush administration marked a very serious and profoundly negative turning point - not just for the nation, but for the international order, because we started to govern on the idea of "might makes right." And that's a very old, toxic and infectious idea.