Silk road Quote by Nathaniel Popper

“Drawing on the best modern scholarship, this book seeks to rescue the history of networks from the clutches of the conspiracy theorists, and to…

— Niall Ferguson

“Among other devices, the agency intercepts and tampers with routers and servers manufactured by Cisco to direct large amounts of Internet traffic back to…

— Glenn Greenwald

“For a period of several years in the mid-1990s the Chinese talked very openly, for a Communist police state, about what they had learned…

— Richard A. Clarke

The government invented the Internet.

— Jon Meacham

“The governmental tortoise cannot keep up with the technological hare. It is overwhelmed by data. The NSA may be spying on our every word,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations…

— Valerie Plame

“And so, at a December 1981 meeting, Contra leaders, whom Reagan referred to as the “moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers,” floated the idea…

— Carol Anderson

“There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or…

— Erik Larson

“This web of intricate connections”

— Joyce Carol Oates

No foreign nation, no hacker, should be able to shut down our networks, steal our trade secrets.

— Barack Obama

“Certain documents, such as the FISA court order allowing collection of telephone records and Obama’s presidential directive to prepare offensive cyber-operations, were among the…

— Glenn Greenwald

“The NSA and allies scamper through the plumbing of the internet like mice through the nooks and crannies of an old house. Huge slices…

— Edward Lucas