Edward Snowden Quotes - Page 15

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• Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but the only one who can end the worst of its abuses is you. Call your representatives and tell them that the unconstitutional 'bulk collection' of Americans' private records under Section 215 of the Patriot Act must end.

  Edward Snowden

  Opportunity, Nsa, Abuse

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• One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.

  Edward Snowden

  Law, Nsa, Division

  "Snowden: NSA pressured EU into creating ‘European bazaar’ of spy networks". www.rt.com. March 7, 2014.

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• It's important to remember when you start doing things like attacking hospitals through the internet, when you start attacking things like internet exchange points, when something goes wrong, people can die. If a hospital's infrastructure is affected, lifesaving equipment turns off.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Important, Remember

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

  Edward Snowden

  Lying, Nsa, America

  "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• When Clapper raised his hand and lied to the American public, was anyone tried? Were any charges brought? Within 24 hours of going public, I had three charges against me.

  Edward Snowden

  Hands, Nsa, Three

  "NSA spies on more US citizens than Russians – Snowden". www.rt.com. May 1, 2014.

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• We reject techniques like torture regardless of whether they're effective or ineffective because they are barbaric and harmful on a broad scale. It's the same thing with cyber warfare. We should never be attacking hospitals. We should never be taking down power plants unless that is absolutely necessary to ensure our continued existence as a free people.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Technique, Warfare

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's clear the CIA was trying to play 'keep away' with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and that's a serious constitutional concern. But it's equally if not more concerning that we're seeing another 'Merkel Effect,' where an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are violated by our spies, but suddenly it's a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Nsa, Play

  "Snowden: Feinstein a Hypocrite for Blasting CIA Spying". www.nbcnews.com. March 11, 2014.

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• I don't go out and play football and stuff - that's not me. I want to think, I want to build, I want to talk, I want to create.

  Edward Snowden

  Football, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• It doesn't need to be consistently concentrated in these venture-capital funds and things like that.

  Edward Snowden

  Venture, Needs, Fund

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I think the public still isn't aware of the frequency with which the cyber-attacks, as they're being called in the press, are being used by governments around the world, not just the US.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Government, Cyber Attacks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you ask anybody at Cyber Command or look at any of the job listings for openings for their positions, you'll see that the one thing they don't prioritize is computer network defense. It's all about computer network attack and computer network exploitation at Cyber Command.

  Edward Snowden

  Jobs, Defense, Looks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love my country. I love my family. And I have dedicated my life to both of them.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, I Love My Family, Dedicated

  "White House: Snowden 'is not a whistleblower'" by Nick Gass, www.politico.com. September 14, 2016.

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• If I had to guess what the future's going to look like for me - assuming it's not an orange jumpsuit in a hole - I think I'm going to alternate between tech and policy.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Orange, Looks

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• When the United States cannibalize dollars from the defensive business of the NSA, securing our communications, protecting our systems, patching zero-day vulnerabilities, and instead we're giving those dollars to be used for creating new vulnerabilities in our systems so that they can surveil us and other people abroad who use the same systems.

  Edward Snowden

  Zero, Communication, Nsa

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• No one would argue that it's in the United States' interest to have independent knowledge of the plans and intentions of foreign countries. But we need to think about where to draw the line on these kind of operations so we're not always attacking our allies, the people we trust, the people we need to rely on, and to have them in turn rely on us.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Independent, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you're attacking a router on the internet, and you're doing it remotely, it's like trying to shoot the moon with a rifle. Everything has to happen exactly right. Every single variable has to be controlled and precisely accounted for. And that's not possible to do when you have limited knowledge of the target you're attacking.

  Edward Snowden

  Moon, Trying, Rifles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

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• I talk to cryptographers, some of the leading technologists in the world, all the time about how we can deal with these issues. It is not possible to create a back door that is only accessible, for example, to the FBI.

  Edward Snowden

  Issues, Doors, World

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• 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

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• 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

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• A political decision has been made not to irritate the intelligence community. The spy agencies are really embarrassed, they're really sore - the revelations really hurt their mystique. The last ten years, they were getting the Zero Dark Thirty treatment - they're the heroes. The surveillance revelations bring them back to Big Brother kind of narratives, and they don't like that at all.

  Edward Snowden

  Hurt, Brother, Zero

  "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview". Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• There are programs such as the NSA paying RSA $10 million to use an insecure encryption standard by default in their products. That's making us more vulnerable not just to the snooping of our domestic agencies, but also foreign agencies.

  Edward Snowden

  Insecure, Nsa, Agency

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

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• When governments go too far to punish people for actions that are dissent rather than a real threat to the nation, they risk delegitimizing not just their systems of justice, but the legitimacy of the government itself. Because when they bring political charges against people for acts that were clearly at least intended to work in the public interest, they deny them the opportunity to mount a public-interest defense.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Opportunity, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• When I was working in Japan, I created a system for ensuring that intelligence data was globally recoverable in the event of a disaster. I was not aware of the scope of mass surveillance. I came across some legal questions when I was creating it. My superiors pushed back and were like, "Well, how are we going to deal with this data?" And I was like, "I didn't even know it existed."

  Edward Snowden

  Data, Creating, Japan

  Source: www.thenation.com

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