There are people who are always going to try to engage in activity that is illegal and they're going to try to subvert surveillance. But everybody should not give up their liberties and rights to privacy because some people are going to [do that]. We shouldn't stop or limit our basic liberties because some people are going to engage in criminal activities.

In all my work, I'm interested in understanding big issues through the lives of individuals.

The free software community should be supported more widely. I’m totally in solidarity with what they do.

I was in correspondence with an anonymous source for about five months and in the process of developing a dialogue you build ideas, of course, about who that person might be. My idea was that he was in his late forties, early fifties. I figured he must be Internet generation because he was super tech-savvy, but I thought that, given the level of access and information he was able to discuss, he had to be older.

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

People are starting to understand that the devices we carry with us reveal our location, who we're talking to, and all kinds of other information.

I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.