Gijs de Vries

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.