Edward Snowden Quotes - Page 17

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• 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

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• If you ask anybody at Cyber Command or look at any of the job listings for openings for their positions, you'll see that the one thing they don't prioritize is computer network defense. It's all about computer network attack and computer network exploitation at Cyber Command.

  Edward Snowden

  Jobs, Defense, Looks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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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• We reject techniques like torture regardless of whether they're effective or ineffective because they are barbaric and harmful on a broad scale. It's the same thing with cyber warfare. We should never be attacking hospitals. We should never be taking down power plants unless that is absolutely necessary to ensure our continued existence as a free people.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Technique, Warfare

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love my country. I love my family. And I have dedicated my life to both of them.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, I Love My Family, Dedicated

  "White House: Snowden 'is not a whistleblower'" by Nick Gass, www.politico.com. September 14, 2016.

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• If I and other whistleblowers are sentenced to long years in prison without so much as a chance to explain our motivations to a jury, it will have a deeply chilling effect on future whistleblowers working as I did to expose government abuse and overreach. It will chill speech. It will corrode the quality of our democracy.

  Edward Snowden

  Motivation, Government, Years

  "Activists Launch Campaign Urging Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden". "All Things Considered" with David Welna, www.npr.org. September 14, 2016.

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• I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile.

  Edward Snowden

  Running, Hands, Hats

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I've been recognized every now and then. It's always in computer stores. It's something like brain associations, because I'll be in the grocery store and nobody will recognize me. Even in my glasses, looking exactly like my picture, nobody will recognize me. But I could be totally clean-shaven, hat on, looking nothing like myself in a computer store, and they're like, "Snowden?!"

  Edward Snowden

  Glasses, Brain, Association

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I do everything on the computer. TV is obsolete technology for me.

  Edward Snowden

  Technology, Tvs, Computer

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I've been watching The Wire recently.

  Edward Snowden

  Wire

  "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview" by Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.

  Edward Snowden

  Hate, Talking, Ordinary

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• [I watch] all that stuff - Game of Thrones and all the other series. How about House of Cards? As for Boardwalk Empire - that's another period of government overreach, but at least they use the amendment process! In real life, the executive branch, by violating the Constitution, is using statutes in place of constitutional amendments to diminish our liberty.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Government, Games

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• 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

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• People would publish their websites; other people would read them. But there was no real back and forth other than through e-mail. Web 2.0 was what they called the collaborative web - Facebook, Twitter, the social media.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Media, People

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• 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

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• We've got crazy little sites going up against established media behemoths.

  Edward Snowden

  Crazy, Media, Littles

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• 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

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• I must say I'm surprised by how skeptical of the [Barack] Obama administration The Nation has been.

  Edward Snowden

  Administration, Skeptical, Barack

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• Imagine, if you will, you're sitting at my desk in Hawaii. You have access to the entire world, as far as you can see it. Last several days, content of internet communications. Every email that's sent. Every website that's visited by every individual. Every text message that somebody sends on their phone. Every phone call they make.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Phones, Lasts

  "Edward Snowden at FutureFest: the full interview". www.nesta.org.uk. 2015.

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• Now terrorism is not the greatest threat facing our societies.

  Edward Snowden

  Our Society, Terrorism, Threat

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• [Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have been unlawful and unconstitutional.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Trying, Encryption

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• What the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation. They want to have a perfect record of the last five years of your life, so when you come to their attention, they can know everything about you. I'm not down with that, but [Bill] Binney was trying to create something like that.

  Edward Snowden

  Years, Nsa, Perfect

  "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview". Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• Some months after [Keith Alexander] made that statement [Edward Snowden cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation], the new director of the NSA, Michael Rogers, said that, in fact, he doesn't see the sky falling. It's not so serious after all.

  Edward Snowden

  Fall, Nsa, Sky

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• We have to decide why terrorism is a new threat. There has always been terrorism.

  Edward Snowden

  Terrorism, Threat

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

  Edward Snowden

  Strong, People, Hong Kong

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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