Edward Snowden Quotes About Security

Quotes about: Security

• Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.

  Edward Snowden

  Strong, Nsa, Encryption

  Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

• It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers with each passing year.

  Edward Snowden

  Agency, Years, Surveillance

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations.

  Edward Snowden

  Memorable, Definitions, Consideration

• The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority is weakening our security, just so they have a better chance of keeping an eye on us.

  Edward Snowden

  War, Eye, Nsa

  "Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.

• We don't like to use the phrase "state security" in the United States because it reminds us of all the bad regimes. But it's a key concept, because when these officials are out on TV, they're not talking about what's good for you. They're not talking about what's good for business. They're not talking about what's good for society. They're talking about the protection and perpetuation of a national state system.

  Edward Snowden

  Keys, Talking, Tvs

  Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

• We've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the national surveillance agency. And they've lost sight of the fact that everything they do is supposed to make us more secure as a nation and a society.

  Edward Snowden

  Agency, Sight, Departure

  Source: www.pbs.org

• There's no question that the US is engaged in economic spying. If there's information at Siemens that they think would be beneficial to the national interests, not the national security of the United States, they'll go after that information and they'll take it.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, United States, Would Be

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

• Even if it were, you run into the same problem with international commerce: if you create a device that is famous for compromised security and it has an American back door, nobody is gonna buy it.

  Edward Snowden

  Running, Doors, Problem

  Source: www.thenation.com

• We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

  Edward Snowden

  Agency, Needs, Surveillance

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I built my own studio. I don't have the professional language to describe it because I'm not a videographer - but I'm a technician. So I get the camera, I get all the things that translate the camera to the computer, I set up a live session, I do the security on it, I set up a background so I can key it out, like newscasters do, and replace it with whatever I want - and I can be anywhere I need to be.

  Edward Snowden

  Keys, Want, Cameras

  Source: www.thenation.com

• Going all the way back to Daniel Ellsberg, it is clear that the government is not concerned with damage to national security, because in none of these cases was there damage.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Way, Damage

  Source: www.thenation.com

• The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to be able to defend ourselves. And we can't do that as long as we're subverting our own security standards for the sake of surveillance.

  Edward Snowden

  Long, Important, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Many of our ally states don't have these constitutional protections - in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They've lost the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure without probable cause. All of those countries, in the wake of these surveillance revelations, rushed through laws that were basically ghostwritten by the National Security Agency to enable mass surveillance without court oversight, without all of the standard checks and balances that one would expect.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Agency, Law

  Source: www.thenation.com

• People have to be free to investigate computer security. People have to be free to look for the vulnerabilities and create proof of concept code to show that they are true vulnerabilities in order for us to secure our systems.

  Edward Snowden

  Order, People, Looks

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The courts were afraid to challenge executive declarations of what would happen. Now, over the last year, we have seen - in almost every single court that has had this sort of national-security case - that they have become markedly more skeptical.

  Edward Snowden

  Years, Challenges, Lasts

  Source: www.thenation.com

• I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is in the realm of rhetoric but not fact.

  Edward Snowden

  Liberty, Facts, Arguing

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

• 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

• What we're really debating is not security versus liberty, it's security versus surveillance. When we talk about electronic interception, the way that surveillance works is it preys on the weakness of protections that are being applied to all of our communications. The manner in which they're protected.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Liberty, Weakness

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

• Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era, we're not going to be able to put the security back in the NSA.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Law, Able

  "Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.

• We have a media that goes along with the government by parroting phrases intended to provoke a certain emotional response - for example, "national security." Everyone says "national security" to the point that we now must use the term "national security." But it is not national security that they're concerned with; it is state security. And that's a key distinction.

  Edward Snowden

  Emotional, Keys, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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