Edward Snowden Quotes About Internet

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I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

Edward Snowden

Government, Nsa, People

"Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". Article by Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.
The internet is the most complex system that humans have ever invented. And with every internet enabled operation that we've seen so far, all of these offensive operations, we see knock on effects. We see unintended consequences.

Edward Snowden

Offensive, Internet, Unintended Consequences

Source: www.pbs.org
A zero-day exploit is a method of hacking a system. It's sort of a vulnerability that has an exploit written for it, sort of a key and a lock that go together to a given software package. It could be an internet web server. It could be Microsoft Office. It could be Adobe Reader or it could be Facebook.

Edward Snowden

Zero, Keys, Office

Source: www.pbs.org
US has to be able to rely on a safe and interconnected internet in order to compete with other countries.

Edward Snowden

Country, Order, Safe

Source: www.pbs.org
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
We need the security standards to apply to the internet. We need to be able to trust that when we send our emails through Verizon, that Verizon isn't sharing with the NSA, that Verizon isn't sharing them with the FBI or German intelligence or French intelligence or Russian intelligence or Chinese intelligence.

Edward Snowden

Nsa, Chinese, Email

Source: www.pbs.org
All this is a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because it helps people establish what they value; they understand the sort of ideas they identify with. The curse is that they aren't challenged in their views. The Internet becomes an echo chamber. Users don't see the counterarguments.

Edward Snowden

Blessing, Echoes, Views

Source: www.thenation.com
Imagine, if you will, you're sitting at my desk in Hawaii. You have access to the entire world, as far as you can see it. Last several days, content of internet communications. Every email that's sent. Every website that's visited by every individual. Every text message that somebody sends on their phone. Every phone call they make.

Edward Snowden

Communication, Phones, Lasts

"Edward Snowden at FutureFest: the full interview". www.nesta.org.uk. 2015.
When people conceptualize a cyber-attack, they do tend to think about parts of the critical infrastructure like power plants, water supplies, and similar sort of heavy infrastructure, critical infrastructure areas. And they could be hit, as long as they're network connected, as long as they have some kind of systems that interact with them that could be manipulated from internet connection.

Edward Snowden

Thinking, Cyber Attacks, Long

Source: www.pbs.org
The internet exchange is sort of the core points where all of the international cables come together, where all of the internet service providers come together, and they trade lines with each other. These are priority one targets for any sort of espionage agency, because they provide access to so many people's communications.

Edward Snowden

Communication, Agency, People

Source: www.pbs.org
The United States is more reliant on the technical systems. We're more reliant on the critical infrastructure of the internet than any other nation out there. And when there's such a low barrier to entering the domain of cyber-attacks we're starting a fight that we can't win.

Edward Snowden

Fighting, Winning, Cyber Attacks

Source: www.pbs.org
The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.

Edward Snowden

Normal, Internet, Economy

Source: www.pbs.org
I think we're going to see a move away from that, because young people - digital natives who spend their life on the Internet - get saturated. It's like a fashion trend, and becomes a sign of a lack of sophistication.

Edward Snowden

Fashion, Moving, Thinking

Source: www.thenation.com
Since the revelations, we have seen a massive sea change in the technological basis and makeup of the Internet.

Edward Snowden

Makeup, Sea, Internet

Source: www.thenation.com
What has a great value to us as a nation is the internet itself. The internet is critical infrastructure to the United States. We use the internet for every communication that businesses rely on every day.

Edward Snowden

Communication, United States, Use

Source: www.pbs.org
Internet exchanges and internet service providers - international fiber optic landing points - these are the key tools that governments go after in order to enable their programs of mass surveillance. If they want to be able to watch the entire population of a country instead of a single individual, you have to go after those bulk interchanges.

Edward Snowden

Country, Keys, Government

Source: www.pbs.org
Every time we walk on to the field of battle and the field of battle is the internet, it doesn't matter if we shoot our opponents a hundred times and hit every time. As long as they've hit us once, we've lost, because the U.S. is so much more reliant on those systems.

Edward Snowden

Long, Battle, Opponents

Source: www.pbs.org
The community of technical experts who really manage the internet, who built the internet and maintain it, are becoming increasingly concerned about the activities of agencies like the NSA or Cyber Command, because what we see is that defense is becoming less of a priority than offense.

Edward Snowden

Nsa, Agency, Community

"Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.
On the other hand, the Internet is there to fill needs that people have for information and socialization. We get this sort of identification thing going on nowadays because it's a very fractious time. We live in a time of troubles.

Edward Snowden

Hands, People, Needs

Source: www.thenation.com
I'm not a politician, and I do not think I am as effective in this way as people who actually prepare for it - is to focus on technical reform, because I speak the language of technology. I spoke with Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who invented the World Wide Web. We agree on the necessity for this generation to create what he calls the Magna Carta for the Internet. We want to say what "digital rights" should be. What values should we be protecting, and how do we assert them.

Edward Snowden

Technology, Thinking, Rights

Source: www.thenation.com
The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity in secret to extend their powers beyond what is necessary and appropriate.

Edward Snowden

Country, Government, People
If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire parts of the United States could be cut off. That would have a tremendous impact on us as a society and it would have a policy backlash.

Edward Snowden

Cutting, Impact, Ties

Source: www.pbs.org
The United States need to be focusing more on creating a more secure, more reliable, more robust, and more trusted internet, not one that's weaker, not one that relies on this systemic model of exploiting every vulnerability, every threat out there.

Edward Snowden

Creating, United States, Needs

Source: www.pbs.org
I went to a website the other day and right at the top of the page it showed me my ip address. It was the most disturbing moment I have ever experienced. This website even told me what internet browser I was using, and what day it was. Computers can do anything.

Edward Snowden

Addresses, Pages, Computer
Where are we going to reject that easy but flawed process of letting the intelligence services do whatever they want? It's inevitable that it will happen. I think it's going to be where Internet businesses go.

Edward Snowden

Thinking, Intelligence Services, Want

Source: www.thenation.com

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