The United States need to be focusing more on creating a more secure, more reliable, more robust, and more trusted internet, not one that's weaker, not one that relies on this systemic model of exploiting every vulnerability, every threat out there.

We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.

We decentralise the ability to decide the level of publicity that's attached to any of our communications.

I'm not an anarchist. I'm not saying, "Burn it to the ground."

Has the center of gravity shifted such that all governments have greater powers and fewer restrictions than they ever had, and are empowered by technology in a way that no government ever was in the past?

We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power.

We are a representative democracy. But how did we get there? We got there through direct action. And that's enshrined in our Constitution and in our values.