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.
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
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
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
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
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
Something we have to remember is that everything about the internet is interconnected. All of our systems are not just common to us because of the network links between them, but because of the software packages, because of the hardware devices that comprise it. The same router that's deployed in the United States is deployed in China.

Edward Snowden

United States, Links, Common

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
America should be cooling down the tensions in the internet, making it a more trusted environment, making it a more secure environment, making it a more reliable environment, because that's the foundation of our economy and our future.

Edward Snowden

America, Foundation, Internet

Source: www.pbs.org
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
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
There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called proxy chains where they gain access to a number of different systems around the world, sometimes by hacking these, and they use them as sort of relay boxes.

Edward Snowden

Numbers, Typical, Different

Source: www.pbs.org
I describe it as tribalism because they're very tightly woven communities. Lack of civility is part of it, because that's how Internet tribes behave. We see this more and more in electoral politics, which have become increasingly poisonous.

Edward Snowden

Community, Woven, Tribes

Source: www.thenation.com
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
US has to be able to rely on a safe and interconnected internet in order to compete with other countries.

Edward Snowden

Country, Order, Safe

Source: www.pbs.org
The United States need to put internet processes, policies, and procedures in place with real laws that forbid going beyond the borders of what's reasonable to ensure that the only time that we and other countries around the world exercise these authorities are when it is absolutely necessary.

Edward Snowden

Country, Real, Exercise

Source: www.pbs.org
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
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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