Patrick Radden Keefe:

Michael Braun, the former chief of operations for the D.E.A., told me a story about the construction of a high-tech fence along a stretch of border in Arizona. "They erect this fence," he said, "only to go out there a few days later and discover that these guys have a catapult, and they're flinging hundred-pound bales of marijuana over to the other side." He paused and looked at me for a second. "A catapult," he repeated. "We've got the best fence money can buy, and they counter us with a 2,500-year-old technology."

Shawn Henry, FBI executive assistant director:

We're not winning.

I don't see how we ever come out of this without changes in technology or changes in behavior, because with the status quo, it's an unsustainable model. Unsustainable in that you never get ahead, never become secure, never have a reasonable expectation of privacy or security.

Clay Johnson:

Your clicks have consequences.

James A. Lewis:

There's a kind of willful desire not to admit how bad things are.

George Hotz:

If they were that good, they wouldn't have got caught.

Richard Bejtlich:

The median number of days between the start of an intrusion and its detection was 416.

Nicholas Kristof:

Antibiotic-resistant infections kill more Americans annually than AIDS.