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.
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
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
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
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 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
[Sovereignty] would break the American monopoly, but it would also break Internet business, because you'd have to have a data center in every country. And data centers are tremendously expensive, a big capital investment.

Edward Snowden

Country, Data, Internet Business
If you seek to help, join the open source community and fight to keep the spirit of the press alive and the internet free. I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.

Edward Snowden

Fighting, Light, Government

"How I Met Edward Snowden" by Glenn Greenwald, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2014.
When we talk about computer network exploitation, computer network attack, we're not just talking about your home PC. We're talking about your cell phone, and we're also talking about internet routers themselves. The NSA is attacking the critical infrastructure of the internet to try to take ownership of it. They hack the routers that connect nations to the internet itself.

Edward Snowden

Home, Phones, Cells

Source: www.pbs.org
We should never allow computers to make inherently governmental decisions in terms of the application of military force, even if that's happening on the internet.

Edward Snowden

Military, Decision, Computer

Source: www.pbs.org
Every time somebody on the internet sort of glances at us sideways, we launch an attack at them. That's not going to work out for us long term, and the U.S. have to get ahead of the problem if we're going to succeed.

Edward Snowden

Long, Work Out, Succeed

Source: www.pbs.org
When people talk about Web 2.0, they mean that when the Internet, the World Wide Web, first became popular, it was one way only.

Edward Snowden

Mean, People, World

Source: www.thenation.com
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
When you use any kind of internet based capability, any kind of electronic capability, to cause damage to a private entity or a foreign nation or a foreign actor, these are potential acts of war.

Edward Snowden

War, Use, Actors

Source: www.pbs.org
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
Defending ourselves from internet-based attacks, internet-originated attacks, is much, much more important than our ability to launch attacks against similar targets in foreign countries.

Edward Snowden

Country, Important, Target

Source: www.pbs.org
The public don't want to authorize the internet to become a battleground. We need to do everything we can as a society to keep that a neutral zone, to keep that an economic zone that can reflect our values, both politically, socially, and economically.

Edward Snowden

Needs, Want, Internet

Source: www.pbs.org
What we're seeing now, or starting to see, is an atomization of the Internet community. Before, everybody went only to a few sites; now we've got all these boutiques.

Edward Snowden

Community, Internet, Starting

Source: www.thenation.com
You have to remember the way the internet works, when you communicate with the server, it's very likely not in your country. It's somewhere else in the world.

Edward Snowden

Country, Somewhere Else, World

Source: www.nesta.org.uk
US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a more aggressive territory.

Edward Snowden

Country, Research And Development, Territory

Source: www.pbs.org
The internet is shared critical infrastructure for everyone on earth. It's not supposed to be a domain of warfare. We're not supposed to be putting the Unied States' economy on the frontlines in the battleground.

Edward Snowden

Warfare, Earth, Internet

Source: www.pbs.org
When it comes to the internet, when it comes to the United States' technical economy, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.

Edward Snowden

United States, Earth, Internet

Source: www.pbs.org

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