Activity Quotes by Edward Snowden

9 Activity quotes by Edward Snowden

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Snowden’s brief reflections emphasize the importance of vigilance and proactive stance, offering a concise call to stay engaged and informed.

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In liberal societies we don't typically require citizens to rearrange their activities, their lives, the way they go about their business, to…

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The community of technical experts who really manage the internet, who built the internet and maintain it, are becoming increasingly concerned about…

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One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to…

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These activities can be misconstrued, misinterpreted, and used to harm you as an individual, even without the government having any intent to…

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Sometimes that irrational commitment to principle is what society needs to survive. Whenever you talk about radicalism, whenever you talk about activism,…

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The reality is if we sit back and allow a few officials behind closed doors to launch offensive attacks without any oversight…

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At the trial of Chelsea Manning, the government could point to no case of specific damage that had been caused by the…

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Do you check it when you travel, do you check it when you're just at home? They'd be able to tell something…

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There are even a few [people] who still honestly believe I sold information to [Vladimir] Putin - like personally, in exchange for…

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It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

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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…

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If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political…

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The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

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As a general rule, so long as you have any choice at all, you should never route through or peer with the UK under…

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[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data…

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You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy, but to…

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We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

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A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed…

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Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build a critical…

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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…

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We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our technological capabilities.

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It's much easier, I think, to protect communications while they're in transit at least, than it is to enforce legislation in every country in…

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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…

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I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon or agree…

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