The bare bones tools for a cyber-attack are to identify a vulnerability in the system you want to gain access to or you want to subvert or you want to deny, destroy, or degrade, and then to exploit it, which means to send codes, deliver code to that system somehow and get that code to that vulnerability, to that crack in their wall, jam it in there, and then have it execute.

The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law.

I would rather be without a state than without a voice.

If you seek to help, join the open source community and fight to keep the spirit of the press alive and the internet free. I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.