Edward Snowden Quotes - Page 8

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• The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses.

  Edward Snowden

  Hurt, Government, Principles

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• It also comes down to parenting. It is important to know what your beliefs are, and that you have to stand up for them or you don't really believe in them. You know, my father and mother - in fact, every member of my immediate family - have worked for the federal government. Sometimes misunderstood is that I didn't stand up to overthrow the system.

  Edward Snowden

  Mother, Father, Believe

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.

  Edward Snowden

  Government Spying, World, Behavior

  "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations" by Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.

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• How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and is more and more difficult to check?

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Government, Democracy

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I'm not a movie guy. I don't know all this stuff that comes with celebrity. I don't know who the actors will be and stuff like that. But anybody who wants to talk about the issues - that's great.

  Edward Snowden

  Issues, Guy, Stuff

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• We are all today being monitored in advance and in criminal suspicion. And I think that's terrifying, and deeply illiberal as concept. And that's something that we should reject.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Criminals, Today

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• It is interesting that so many people who become disenchanted, who protest against their own organizations, are people who contributed something to them and then saw how it was misused.

  Edward Snowden

  Organization, People, Interesting

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was the moral moment for physicists. Mass surveillance is the same moment for computer scientists, when they realize that the things they produce can be used to harm a tremendous number of people.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Numbers, People

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I know that fundamentally, changes to the fabric of the internet, and sort of our methods of communication, can enforce our rights.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Rights, Fabric

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• The issue I brought forward most clearly was that of mass surveillance, not of surveillance in general.

  Edward Snowden

  Issues, Surveillance, Mass

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I was living a charmed life.

  Edward Snowden

  Charmed Life, Charmed

  "Edward Snowden at FutureFest: the full interview". Interview with Geoff Mulgan, Breffni O'Connor, Luciano Floridi and Dame Vivienne Westwood, www.nesta.org.uk. March 2015.

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• If the United States is promoting the development of exploits, of vulnerabilities, of insecurity in this critical infrastructure, and we're not fixing it when we find it, instead we put it on the shelf so we can use it the next time we want to launch an attack against some foreign country. We're leaving ourselves at risk.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Leaving, Insecurity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• From the very beginning, I said there are two tracks of reform: there's the political and the technical. I don't believe the political will be successful, for exactly the reasons you underlined. The issue is too abstract for average people, who have too many things going on in their lives.

  Edward Snowden

  Believe, Successful, Average

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• By leaning on companies, by leaning on infrastructure providers, by leaning on researchers, graduate students, post-docs, even undergrads, to look at the challenges having an untrusted internet, where we have to put our communications on wires that are owned by a phone company that we can't trust, that's working in collaboration with a government that we can't trust, in areas around the world, we can restructure that communications fabric in a way that it's encrypted.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Phones, Government

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• 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.

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• One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and I'm going to be a drunk and I'm never going to do anything. I don't drink. I've never been drunk in my life. And they talk about Russia like it's the worst place on earth. Russia's great.

  Edward Snowden

  Russia, Drunk, Earth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We need to make sure that whenever we're engaging in a cyber-warfare campaign, a cyber-espionage campaign in the United States, that we understand the word cyber is used as a euphemism for the internet, because the American public would not be excited to hear that we're doing internet warfare campaigns, internet espionage campaigns, because we realize that we ourselves are impacted by it.

  Edward Snowden

  United States, Warfare, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

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• We have to argue forcefully and demand that the government recognise that these programmes do not prevent - mass surveillance does not prevent acts of terrorism.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Doe, Demand

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• 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

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• We have to call mass surveillance mass surveillance. We can't let governments around the world redefine, and sort of weasel their way out of it by saying this is bulk collection.

  Edward Snowden

  Letting Go, Government, World

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• The FBI was creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Apples, Creating

  Source: www.bbc.com

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• This whole pre-criminal investigation, where we watch everybody, all the time, just in case, is really an extraordinary departure from the Western liberal tradition.

  Edward Snowden

  Criminals, Watches, Departure

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• I wasn't trying to change the laws or slow down the machine. Maybe I should have. My critics say that I was not revolutionary enough. But they forget that I am a product of the system. I worked those desks, I know those people and I still have some faith in them, that the services can be reformed.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Trying, Revolutionary

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I would say the first key concept is that, in terms of technological and communication progress in human history, the Internet is basically the equivalent of electronic telepathy. We can now communicate all the time through our little magic smartphones with people who are anywhere, all the time, constantly learning what they're thinking, talking about, exchanging messages. And this is a new capability even within the context of the Internet.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.thenation.com

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