Edward Snowden Quotes About Authority

Quotes about: Authority

• Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Judging, President

  "Snowden -- facts, fictions and fears" by Michael Hayden, edition.cnn.com. July 24, 2013.

• The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it's only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say that because of the crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny.

  Edward Snowden

  Fighting, Years, Nsa

• A different [Ronald] Reagan-era authority: EO 12333, an executive order for foreign-intelligence collection, as opposed to the ones we now use domestically. So this one isn't even authorized by law. It's just an old-ass piece of paper with Reagan's signature on it, which has been updated a couple times since then. So what happened was that all of a sudden these massive, behemoth companies realized their data centers - sending hundreds of millions of people's communications back and forth every day - were completely unprotected, electronically naked.

  Edward Snowden

  Couple, Communication, Order

• Anyway, it's not true that the authorities cannot access the content of the phone even if there is no back door. When I was at the NSA, we did this every single day, even on Sundays. I believe that encryption is a civic responsibility, a civic duty.

  Edward Snowden

  Believe, Responsibility, Sunday

  Source: www.thenation.com

• They [the authorities] will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night.

  Edward Snowden

  Night, Authority, Known

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• The United States need to put internet processes, policies, and procedures in place with real laws that forbid going beyond the borders of what's reasonable to ensure that the only time that we and other countries around the world exercise these authorities are when it is absolutely necessary.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Real, Exercise

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations, an image of what proper civil disobedience is - one that is simply ineffective.

  Edward Snowden

  Wall, Believe, Imagination

  Source: www.thenation.com

• All those people who went out [to Occupy Wall Street] missed work, didn't get paid. Those were individuals who were already feeling the effects of inequality, so they didn't have a lot to lose. And then the individuals who were louder, more disruptive and, in many ways, more effective at drawing attention to their concerns were immediately castigated by authorities. They were cordoned off, pepper-sprayed, thrown in jail.

  Edward Snowden

  Wall, Drawing, Jail

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