If I and other whistleblowers are sentenced to long years in prison without so much as a chance to explain our motivations… — Edward Snowden Abuse Copy Share Image
I went to a website the other day and right at the top of the page it showed me my ip address.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Some months after [Keith Alexander] made that statement [Edward Snowden cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation], the new director of… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea where they're coming from… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
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… — Edward Snowden Actors Copy Share Image
A zero-day exploit is a method of hacking a system. It's sort of a vulnerability that has an exploit written for it,… — Edward Snowden Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
As a technologist, I see the trends, and I see that automation inevitably is going to mean fewer and fewer jobs. And… — Edward Snowden Automation Copy Share Image
Internet exchanges and internet service providers - international fiber optic landing points - these are the key tools that governments go after… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When the police officers knock on your door with a warrant, they don't expect you to give them a tour. It's supposed… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When you use any kind of internet based capability, any kind of electronic capability, to cause damage to a private entity or… — Edward Snowden Actors Copy Share Image
Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a… — Edward Snowden Government Copy Share Image
As a general rule, US-based multinationals should not be trusted until they prove otherwise. This is sad, because they have the capability… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The New York Times and The Guardian came out and said, "Hey, clemency for Snowden." But for me, the key - and… — Edward Snowden Care Copy Share Image
You have ceded the concept of your own rights. You've converted them into something you get as a revocable privilege from the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We can still publicly post a message to Facebook that's globally readable. But we could also adjust things so that they can… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Even if it were, you run into the same problem with international commerce: if you create a device that is famous for… — Edward Snowden Back doors Copy Share Image
The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I don't want to directly confront great powers, which we cannot defeat on their terms. They have more money, more clout, more… — Edward Snowden America Copy Share Image
A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for… — Edward Snowden Access Copy Share Image
Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we… — Edward Snowden Government Copy Share Image
I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Every time you pick up the phone, dial a number, write an e-mail, make a purchase, travel on the bus carrying a… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I considered bringing forward information about these surveillance programs prior to the election, but I held off because I believed that [Barack]… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We are all today being monitored in advance and in criminal suspicion. And I think that's terrifying, and deeply illiberal as concept.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17… — Edward Snowden Girlfriend Copy Share Image
Bulk collection means all of your communications are being secretly intercepted. They are being stolen as they cross India, and they're being… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I talk to cryptographers, some of the leading technologists in the world, all the time about how we can deal with these… — Edward Snowden Back doors Copy Share Image
When people are talking about cyber weapons, digital weapons, what they really mean is a malicious program that's used for a military… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
What the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation. They want to have a perfect record of the last five… — Edward Snowden Attention Copy Share Image
The question that we, as a society, have to ask is, are our collective rights worth a small relative advantage in our… — Edward Snowden Ability Copy Share Image
The problem is when [the state] monitor all of us, en masse, all of the time, without any specific justification for intercepting… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that… — Edward Snowden Ability Copy Share Image
I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There's not much value to us attacking Chinese systems. We might take a few computers offline. We might take a factory offline.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or… — Edward Snowden Boston Copy Share Image
If the Obama administration responds with an even harsher hand against me, they can be assured that they'll soon find themselves facing… — Edward Snowden Administration Copy Share Image
If Congress is going to investigate baseball players about whether or not they told the truth, how can we justify giving the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
![“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.” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8df/edward-snowden-555_causes_some-months-after-keith-alexander-made-t_2842592.jpg)
![“I considered bringing forward information about these surveillance programs prior to the election, but I held off because I believed that [Barack] Obama was genuine when he said he was going to change things. I wanted to give the democratic process time to work.” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/96b/edward-snowden-555_barack_i-considered-bringing-forward-informatio_2547361.jpg)
![“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…” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/da9/edward-snowden-555_attention_what-the-nsa-really-wants-is-the-capabil_920203.jpg)
![“The problem is when [the state] monitor all of us, en masse, all of the time, without any specific justification for intercepting in the first place, without any specific judicial showing that there's a probable cause for that infringement of our rights.” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2b2/edward-snowden-555_causes_the-problem-is-when-the-state-monitor-al_2819584.jpg)
![“If Congress is going to investigate baseball players about whether or not they told the truth, how can we justify giving the most powerful intelligence official, [James] Clapper, a pass? This is how J. Edgar Hoover ended up in charge of the FBI forever.” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/544/edward-snowden-555_ball-player_if-congress-is-going-to-investigate-base_388233.jpg)