The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
My whole model, from the beginning, was not to personally publish a single document. I provided these documents to journalists because I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Governments cannot require individuals, they cannot require the public as a body, and they cannot require corporations to make investigation and law… — Edward Snowden Body Copy Share Image
The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
You don't need to justify your rights as a citizen - that inverts the model of responsibility. The government must justify its… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Has the center of gravity shifted such that all governments have greater powers and fewer restrictions than they ever had, and are… — Edward Snowden Center of gravity Copy Share Image
The [Barack] Obama administration almost appears as though it is afraid of the intelligence community. They're afraid of death by a thousand… — Edward Snowden Administration Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, I said there are two tracks of reform: there's the political and the technical. I don't believe the… — Edward Snowden Abstract Copy Share Image
That's one of the biggest issues that we see in the question of governments right now, I think, in the Western world.… — Edward Snowden Class Copy Share Image
No one would argue that it's in the United States' interest to have independent knowledge of the plans and intentions of foreign… — Edward Snowden Allies Copy Share Image
When we talk about computer network exploitation, computer network attack, we're not just talking about your home PC. We're talking about your… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The public don't want to authorize the internet to become a battleground. We need to do everything we can as a society… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned,… — Edward Snowden Administration Copy Share Image
America should be cooling down the tensions in the internet, making it a more trusted environment, making it a more secure environment,… — Edward Snowden America Copy Share Image
We have got a CIA station just up the road - the consulate here in Hong Kong - and I am sure… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It's much easier, I think, to protect communications while they're in transit at least, than it is to enforce legislation in every… — Edward Snowden Communication Copy Share Image
The United States need to put internet processes, policies, and procedures in place with real laws that forbid going beyond the borders… — Edward Snowden Around the world Copy Share Image
If you ask anybody at Cyber Command or look at any of the job listings for openings for their positions, you'll see… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I was hoping to catch [Vladimir] Putin in a lie - like what happened to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper [in… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
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 Chance Copy Share Image
Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
You are not even aware of what is possible. The extent of their capabilities is horrifying. We can plant bugs in machines.… — Edward Snowden Bugs Copy Share Image
Every time we walk on to the field of battle and the field of battle is the internet, it doesn't matter if… — Edward Snowden Battle Copy Share Image
When you think about the abolition of slavery for example, for the ruling class with the rich white people owning plantations and… — Edward Snowden Abolition Copy Share Image
In the United States and some of the other countries involved it's sort of a "five eyes" global spying alliance. That's the… — Edward Snowden Alliances Copy Share Image
If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections… — Edward Snowden Adversaries Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way. The United States government has assembled a massive investigation team into me personally, into my work with… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The new iPhone encryption does not stop them from accessing copies of your pictures or whatever that are uploaded to, for example,… — Edward Snowden Apples Copy Share Image
One of the kind of unexpectedly liberating things of becoming this global fugitive is the fact that you don't worry so much… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled. If they really wanted to capture me, they would've allowed me to… — Edward Snowden America Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to change the laws or slow down the machine. Maybe I should have. My critics say that I was… — Edward Snowden Computers Copy Share Image
There are programs such as the NSA paying RSA $10 million to use an insecure encryption standard by default in their products.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The United States need to be focusing more on creating a more secure, more reliable, more robust, and more trusted internet, not… — Edward Snowden Creating Copy Share Image
You shouldn't send an email from a computer that's associated with you if you don't want it to be tracked back to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I think the public still isn't aware of the frequency with which the cyber-attacks, as they're being called in the press, are… — Edward Snowden Around the world Copy Share Image
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… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Cyber Command is supposed to be defending our critical infrastructure at home, but they are spending so much time looking at how… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Terrorism kills far fewer people than cigarettes, or alcohol, or car accidents. But we don't see ourselves restructuring society and lives in… — Edward Snowden Accidents Copy Share Image
I think we're going to see a move away from that, because young people - digital natives who spend their life on… — Edward Snowden Digital Copy Share Image
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