When people are talking about cyber weapons, digital weapons, what they really mean is a malicious program that's used for a military purpose. A cyber weapon could be something as simple as an old virus from 1995 that just happens to still be effective if you use it for that purpose.

I'm not a spy, which is the real question

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

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

Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone.

There's no saving me.

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.