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• If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.

  Edward Snowden

  Phones, Nsa, Wife

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

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• If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same.

  Edward Snowden

  Phones, Cells, Nsa

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

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• One of the kind of unexpectedly liberating things of becoming this global fugitive is the fact that you don't worry so much about tomorrow. You think more about today. And unexpectedly, I like that very much.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Worry, Today

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

  Edward Snowden

  Spy, Adults, Spotlight

  "Snowden made cautious approach to Post reporter, said he knew the risk he's taking". www.foxnews.com. June 9, 2013.

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• We decentralise permissions over the use of our communications.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Use, Permission

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises.

  Edward Snowden

  Party, People, Promise

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

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• Being confronted with the realization that work you intended to benefit people is being used against them has a radicalizing effect.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Benefits, Realization

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• 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

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• If I am traitor, who did I betray? I gave all my information to the American public, to American journalists who are reporting on American issues. If they see that as treason, I think people really need to consider who they think they're working for. The public is supposed to be their boss, not their enemy.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• Ever since I've been here [in Russia], my life has been consumed with work that's actually fulfilling and satisfying.

  Edward Snowden

  Russia, Fulfilling, Consumed

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• Radicals are not going to disappear. They're going to go underground. They're going to be hardened. And they're not going to be exposed to contrary ideas made by educated people who can make real, convincing, and persuasive arguments to deradicalise these people.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Ideas, People

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• You're not patriotic just because you back whoever's in power today or their policies. You're patriotic when you work to improve the lives of the people of your country, your community and your family. Sometimes that means making hard choices, choices that go against your personal interest.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Patriotic, Mean

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I don't want the stage. I'm terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement.

  Edward Snowden

  Talking, Giving, Important

  www.wired.com.

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• And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under.

  Edward Snowden

  Support, Willing

  "Snowden: I Don't Want to Live in a World Where Everything Is Recorded" by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, mashable.com. August 7, 2013.

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• The Iraq war that I signed up for was launched on false premises. The American people were misled. Now, whether that was due to bad faith or simply mistakes in intelligence, I can't say for sure. But I can say it shows the problem of putting too much faith in intelligence systems without debating them in public.

  Edward Snowden

  War, Mistake, Memorable

  "Edward Snowden’s Motive Revealed: He Can ‘Sleep at Night’". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. May 28, 2014.

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• I've talked to a lot of pretty good lawyers around the world. I'm non-extraditable. That's the real reason the US government was pissed off, even when I was initially in Hong Kong.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Government, Hong Kong

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• If even one country, an Iceland for example, defects from this global legislative bargain and says no, we're not going to enforcement mass surveillance here. We're not going to do that. That's where all of the data centres, all the service providers in the world will relocate to. And I think that gives us a real chance to see a more liberal than authoritarian future.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• We can't simply scare people into giving up their rights, on the basis, oh, this protects us from terrorism.

  Edward Snowden

  Giving Up, Rights, People

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• There are even a few [people] who still honestly believe I sold information to [Vladimir] Putin - like personally, in exchange for asylum. And this is after the Senate Intelligence Committee chair, who gets to read the NSA's reporting on my activities every morning, said all of these conspiracies are delusional.

  Edward Snowden

  Morning, Believe, Nsa

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• As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Acting, Benefits

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• We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.

  Edward Snowden

  Ideas, Doe, Warfare

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Citizens, Destroyed

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

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• If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything. And it gets saved for a very long time - and can be extended further with waivers rather than warrants.

  Edward Snowden

  Attachment, Data, America

  The Guardian live Q&A, www.commondreams.org. June 17, 2013.

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• 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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• There is a technical solution to every political problem...

  Edward Snowden

  Political, Problem, Solutions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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