Azam Ahmed:

American military officials have been reluctant to let go of the war, arguing that their involvement remains necessary ... the distance seems to be widening between the administration's public statements and what the military appears to be doing ...

David Maxwell, a former Special Forces colonel now at Georgetown University:

This isn't spying -- this is armed anthropology.

Pete Herzog:

If it's useless, why is there such a focus on a cybersecurity strategy? Because tactics are hard.

Bruce Schneier:

As the computers already critical to running our infrastructure become connected, our vulnerability to cyberattack grows. I worry about a future a decade from now if these problems aren't addressed.

I worry about the democratization of cyberattack techniques, and who might have the capabilities currently reserved for nation-states.

C. J. Chivers:

Weapons can be steered for only so long.

Anthony Capaccio:

The GAO cited the need to make design changes to the engines and then retrofit planes already built, along with continuing flaws in the plane's software, in a report that warned the Defense Department's "procurement plan may not be affordable."

Mark Goodwin, of Virginia Tech:

Some reports say that we have globally less than 1,000 people who are truly qualified [in cyber defense], whereas we need over 30,000 to address the problem.

Guy Haselmann:

I heard Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan say at a conference that his firm is doubling the amount they spend on computer security in 2015 ...