Billy Kenber:

Defense lawyers have been ordered by the chief defense counsel in the military commissions system to stop using Defense Department systems for confidential files when working in government offices in Rosslyn. Instead, they have been forced to rely on a nearby Starbucks and hotel lobbies to communicate with colleagues.

Michael Hayden, to American businesses, regarding cyber security:

You're responsible for your safety.

Margaret Atwood:

What happens to us if we must be "on" all the time? Then we're in the twenty-four-hour glare of the supervised prison. To live entirely in public is a form of solitary confinement.

T. Bone Burnett:

The worldwide web was supposed to give everybody access and democratize everything. It was supposed to create a level field and increase the middle class and everybody had more access and more information. But now anybody can say anything and nobody cares.

Greg Grandin:

What brings members of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps to the border, Harel Shapira writes, "is less a set of beliefs about Mexicans than a sense of nostalgia for days long past when their lives had purpose and meaning and when they felt like they were participating in making this country." Tired of bowling alone, they come together to hunt Mexicans. But what matters is the coming together; the hunting is incidental.

Mat Honan:

The phone isn't the problem. The problem is us ...