The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the 70s.

When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

Most computers today have built in backup software.

I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.

U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

The more we rehearse the worse we become.”― Usman Ali, The Guilt

Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.

Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.

I'm a classical Christian.

The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.

Live, let live, and help live

It is troublesome sometimes when people get up in your face in public, you know? And say, 'How could you, how dare you?' Well, they don't know me.

If you worry about the ones you missed, you are going to keep missing them.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.