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For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That's part of being a public figure.

Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information.

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.

I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.

I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.

This is where the world is going: direct access from anywhere to any type of data, whether it's a small piece of data or a small answer but a long algorithm to create that answer. The user doesn't care about this.

To know we are being spied on by our own government, and to have someone else's government collaborating on that, to know that data storage is so cheap your information can be kept for years and used to create any kind of story, to me that's a grave attack on human rights.

If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.