Cybersecurity Quotes by Edward Snowden

Privacy is a function of liberty.

— Edward Snowden

We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back

— Edward Snowden

The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations.

— Edward Snowden

Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

— Edward Snowden

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.

— Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

— Edward Snowden

Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for…

— Edward Snowden

Even if it were, you run into the same problem with international commerce: if you create a device that is famous for…

— Edward Snowden

Americans hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country…

— Edward Snowden

I don't see myself as a hero because what I'm doing is self-interested: I don't want to live in a world where…

— Edward Snowden

Going all the way back to Daniel Ellsberg, it is clear that the government is not concerned with damage to national security,…

— Edward Snowden

Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about…

— Edward Snowden

I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is…

— Edward Snowden

Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is…

— Edward Snowden

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

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

We have a media that goes along with the government by parroting phrases intended to provoke a certain emotional response - for…

— Edward Snowden

We need the security standards to apply to the internet. We need to be able to trust that when we send our…

— Edward Snowden

We don't like to use the phrase "state security" in the United States because it reminds us of all the bad regimes.…

— Edward Snowden

There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called…

— Edward Snowden

What we're really debating is not security versus liberty, it's security versus surveillance. When we talk about electronic interception, the way that…

— Edward Snowden

I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to…

— Edward Snowden

I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world…

— Edward Snowden

The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority…

— Edward Snowden

We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country…

— Edward Snowden

People have to be free to investigate computer security. People have to be free to look for the vulnerabilities and create proof…

— Edward Snowden

The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to…

— Edward Snowden

Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era,…

— Edward Snowden

There's no question that the US is engaged in economic spying. If there's information at Siemens that they think would be beneficial…

— Edward Snowden