Civil liberties Quote by Esther Dyson

I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology.

— Noam Chomsky

We've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the national surveillance…

— Edward Snowden

“The first hackers were people in software who like solving problems and believe in freedom and helping each other. They produced a lot of…

— CJS Hayward

What has happened is that we have seen a shift in the past twenty years in the very concept of hacking. So hacking twenty…

— Misha Glenny

What was once a comparatively minor threat - people hacking for fun or for bragging rights - has turned into full-blown economic espionage and…

— Christopher A. Wray

“IN 1984, journalist Steven Levy published Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, which chronicled the scruffy subculture that had not only created the personal…

— Chris Anderson

When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But…

— Tim Cook

History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting freedom of…

— Vint Cerf

I was really fascinated by some of the things happening with Anonymous, the hackers group. I don't necessarily agree with everything they've done, but…

— Michelle Gagnon

Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or…

— Richard Stallman

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big…

— Kevin Mitnick

We've already seen shifts happening in some of the big companies - Google, Apple - that now understand how vulnerable their customer data is,…

— Laura Poitras