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.

From a personal perspective, because I'm on a watchlist and went through years of trying to find out why, of having the government refuse to confirm or deny the very existence of such a list, it's so meaningful to have its existence brought into the open so that the public knows there is a watchlist, and so that the courts can now address the legality of it. I mean, the person who revealed this has done a huge public service and I'm personally thankful.

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

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.

That's a question you'd have to present to people in the White House.

When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.

So my first experience was that I had to do a reboot of my expectations. Like fantastic, great, he's young and charismatic and I was like wow, this is so disorienting, I have to reboot. In retrospect, I can see that it's really powerful that somebody [Snowden] so smart, so young, and with so much to lose risked so much.