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I do think we need more cameras. We have to stay ahead of the terrorists, and I do know in New York, the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, which is based on cameras, the outstanding work that results from that.

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

The most important impact of technology on communications security is that it draws better and better traffic into vulnerable channels.

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

People want security in this insecure world.

Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.

What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance.

The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities in American history... The real problem is that they're using these capabilities to make us vulnerable.