Edward Snowden Quotes - Page 10

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• 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

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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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• The United States is more reliant on the technical systems. We're more reliant on the critical infrastructure of the internet than any other nation out there. And when there's such a low barrier to entering the domain of cyber-attacks we're starting a fight that we can't win.

  Edward Snowden

  Fighting, Winning, Cyber Attacks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People sometimes say I broke an oath of secrecy - one of the early charges leveled against me. But it's a fundamental misunderstanding, because there is no oath of secrecy for people who work in the intelligence community. You are asked to sign a civil agreement, called a Standard Form 312, which basically says if you disclose classified information, they can sue you; they can do this, that and the other. And you risk going to jail.

  Edward Snowden

  Jail, Agreement, People

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

  Edward Snowden

  Agency, Needs, Surveillance

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's critical how we want to use these spy programs, these electronic capabilities, where we want to draw the line, and who should approve these programs, these decisions, and at what level, for engaging in operations that could lead us as a nation into a war.

  Edward Snowden

  War, Decision, Spy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Cyber Command is supposed to be defending our critical infrastructure at home, but they are spending so much time looking at how to attack networks, how to break systems, and how to turn things off. I don't think it adds up as representing a defensive team.

  Edward Snowden

  Team, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Nobody's going to vote for terrorism. So our governments don't have that sort of political pressure to act in a responsible manner when it comes to stewardship of our rights.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Government, Political

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• Chelsea Manning got thirty-five years in prison, while I'm still free.

  Edward Snowden

  Years, Prison, Thirty

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• When it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth. The technical sector is the backbone of the American economy, and if we start engaging in these kind of behaviors, in these kind of attacks, we're setting a standard, we're creating a new international norm of behavior that says this is what nations do. This is what developed nations do.

  Edward Snowden

  Creating, Warfare, Earth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was hoping to catch [Vladimir] Putin in a lie - like what happened to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper [in his congressional testimony]. So I asked Putin basically the same questions about Russian mass surveillance. I knew he's doing the same thing, but he denied it.

  Edward Snowden

  Lying, Directors, Surveillance

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• I'm still alive, and I don't lose sleep because I have done what I feel I needed to do, it was the right thing to do and I am not going to be afraid.

  Edward Snowden

  Sleep, Done, Alive

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold senior officials to account with the same laws that every other citizen in the country is held to," or "This is a nation that believes in the rule of law."

  Edward Snowden

  Senior, Country, Real

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• People have to be free to investigate computer security. People have to be free to look for the vulnerabilities and create proof of concept code to show that they are true vulnerabilities in order for us to secure our systems.

  Edward Snowden

  Order, People, Looks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

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• What we need to do is we need to create new international standards of behavior - not just national laws, because this is a global problem. We can't just fix it in the United States, because there are other countries that don't follow U.S. laws. We have to create international standards that say that cyber attacks should only ever occur when it is absolutely necessary.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Cyber Attacks, Law

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are times throughout history and it doesn't take long for either an American or a German, to think about times in the history of their country where the law provided the Government to do things which were not right.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• [Our system of education ]not designed to create critical thinkers.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinker, Critical

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• I went to St. Petersburg - St. Petersburg is awesome.

  Edward Snowden

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I believe that when [senator Ron] Wyden and [senator Mark] Udall asked about the scale of this, they [the NSA] said it did not have the tools to provide an answer. We do have the tools and I have maps showing where people have been scrutinised most. We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.

  Edward Snowden

  Believe, Communication, Nsa

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

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• I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Media, Political

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• If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else in the world, then where are they going to go?

  Edward Snowden

  Boston, Ideas, World

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I realised that I was part of something that was doing far more harm than good.

  Edward Snowden

  Impact, Government, World

  "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2014.

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• When it comes to social policies, I believe women have the right to make their own choices, and inequality is a really important issue.

  Edward Snowden

  Believe, Issues, Choices

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• The 'music' is not an open court and a fair trial.

  Edward Snowden

  Memorable, Trials, Court

  "V.A. Hospitals: Evidence of Abuse; Edward Snowden: Traitor or Patriot?; Search for Flight 370; Pacers Stave Off Elimination". "Early Start", www.cnn.com. May 29, 2014.

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