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Internet Quotes by Edward Snowden

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Snowden warns that attacks on core internet routers could cripple connections worldwide. He calls the internet both a blessing and a curse, noting how cyber‑attacks can target hospitals and critical infrastructure. He describes digital natives as saturated and sees the internet as a battlefield where every move matters.

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When you use any kind of internet based capability, any kind of electronic capability, to cause damage to a private entity or…

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

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We have to be able to reject disproportionate and unjustified responses in the cyber domain just as we do in the physical…

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What has a great value to us as a nation is the internet itself. The internet is critical infrastructure to the United…

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We should never allow computers to make inherently governmental decisions in terms of the application of military force, even if that's happening…

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US has to be able to rely on a safe and interconnected internet in order to compete with other countries.

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If you seek to help, join the open source community and fight to keep the spirit of the press alive and the…

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Defending ourselves from internet-based attacks, internet-originated attacks, is much, much more important than our ability to launch attacks against similar targets in…

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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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I went to a website the other day and right at the top of the page it showed me my ip address.…

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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,…

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I describe it as tribalism because they're very tightly woven communities. Lack of civility is part of it, because that's how Internet…

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The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of…

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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…

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When people conceptualize a cyber-attack, they do tend to think about parts of the critical infrastructure like power plants, water supplies, and…

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The internet exchange is sort of the core points where all of the international cables come together, where all of the internet…

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By leaning on companies, by leaning on infrastructure providers, by leaning on researchers, graduate students, post-docs, even undergrads, to look at the…

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I'm not a politician, and I do not think I am as effective in this way as people who actually prepare for…

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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…

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US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a…

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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…

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Since the revelations, we have seen a massive sea change in the technological basis and makeup of the Internet.

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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…

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I know that fundamentally, changes to the fabric of the internet, and sort of our methods of communication, can enforce our rights.

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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…

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You have to remember the way the internet works, when you communicate with the server, it's very likely not in your country.…

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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…

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The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity…

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Something we have to remember is that everything about the internet is interconnected. All of our systems are not just common to…

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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…

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America should be cooling down the tensions in the internet, making it a more trusted environment, making it a more secure environment,…

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The United States need to put internet processes, policies, and procedures in place with real laws that forbid going beyond the borders…

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Every time we walk on to the field of battle and the field of battle is the internet, it doesn't matter if…

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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…

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The United States need to be focusing more on creating a more secure, more reliable, more robust, and more trusted internet, not…

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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…

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I think we're going to see a move away from that, because young people - digital natives who spend their life on…

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[Sovereignty] would break the American monopoly, but it would also break Internet business, because you'd have to have a data center in…

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

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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…

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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…

There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold…

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.

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…

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…

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…