Tim Pool:

I spoke with Geoff Shively, and he said, we have got plans for a hack that's going to make this essentially the most badass drone -- "The SkyWitness," is what he calls it.

Whit Diffie and Susan Landau:

The end of the rainbow would be the ability to store all traffic, then decide later which messages were worthy of further study.

Decius:

We are exactly what they accuse us of being, and the proof is the way that we've reacted to them.

It is our failure to avoid embracing fear and sensationalism that will be our undoing. We're still our own greatest threat.

Congressman Ted Poe, Republican from Texas, on the Send Equipment for National Defense (SEND) Act:

This legislation mandates that the Secretary of Defense transfer 10% of eligible returning equipment from Iraq to state and local law enforcement agencies for border security purposes. Eligible equipment would include: humvees, night vision equipment and surveillance unmanned aerial vehicles.

Philip Hensher:

I wish there was some less feeble response to this constant, exhausting, draining surveillance we live under.

Geoff Manaugh:

It seems only a matter of time before armed police drones are a reality in the United States.

We shouldn't lose sight of the fact that this very kind of spy equipment already exists and has already been deployed. That is, the unnerving implication that we are being watched from above by undetectable robots should not let us forget that being watched from above by human pilots is just as invasive.

Decius:

Man, what a great time to be alive!