People have to be free to investigate computer security. People have to be free to look for the vulnerabilities and create proof of concept code to show that they are true vulnerabilities in order for us to secure our systems.

All those people who went out [to Occupy Wall Street] missed work, didn't get paid. Those were individuals who were already feeling the effects of inequality, so they didn't have a lot to lose. And then the individuals who were louder, more disruptive and, in many ways, more effective at drawing attention to their concerns were immediately castigated by authorities. They were cordoned off, pepper-sprayed, thrown in jail.

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

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

They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.

When the United States cannibalize dollars from the defensive business of the NSA, securing our communications, protecting our systems, patching zero-day vulnerabilities, and instead we're giving those dollars to be used for creating new vulnerabilities in our systems so that they can surveil us and other people abroad who use the same systems.

Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.