The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. Edward Snowden More Quotes by Edward Snowden More Quotes From 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, sort of a key and a lock that go together to a given software package. It could be an internet web server. It could be Microsoft Office. It could be Adobe Reader or it could be Facebook. Edward Snowden zero office keys Ever since I've been here [in Russia], my life has been consumed with work that's actually fulfilling and satisfying. Edward Snowden consumed fulfilling russia A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises. He continued with the policies of his predecessor. Edward Snowden party people promise When we look at the full-on mass surveillance watching everyone in the country, in the United States, it doesn't work. It didn't stop the attacks in Boston. The marathon bombings. Where again, we knew who these individuals were. It didn't stop the Underwear Bomber, whose father walked into an embassy and warned us about this individual before he walked onto an airplane. And it's not going to stop the next attacks either. Because again, they're not public safety programmes. They're spying programmes. They are valuable for spying. Edward Snowden airplane country father I would say the first key concept is that, in terms of technological and communication progress in human history, the Internet is basically the equivalent of electronic telepathy. We can now communicate all the time through our little magic smartphones with people who are anywhere, all the time, constantly learning what they're thinking, talking about, exchanging messages. And this is a new capability even within the context of the Internet. Edward Snowden communication keys thinking The question for us is not what new story will come out next. The question is, what are we going to do about it? Edward Snowden next stories What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country. Edward Snowden behalf country ideas We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power. Edward Snowden contests revolutionary people One of the saddest and most damaging legacies of the [George W.] Bush administration is the increased assertion of the "state secrets" privilege, which kept organizations like the ACLU - which had cases of people who had actually been tortured and held in indefinite detention - from getting their day in court. Edward Snowden organization secret people Cyber Command is supposed to be defending our critical infrastructure at home, but they are spending so much time looking at how to attack networks, how to break systems, and how to turn things off. I don't think it adds up as representing a defensive team. Edward Snowden team home thinking What I wanted to do was give society the information it needed to decide if it wanted to change the system. Edward Snowden information needed giving The United States is more reliant on the technical systems. We're more reliant on the critical infrastructure of the internet than any other nation out there. And when there's such a low barrier to entering the domain of cyber-attacks we're starting a fight that we can't win. Edward Snowden cyber-attacks fighting winning People sometimes say I broke an oath of secrecy - one of the early charges leveled against me. But it's a fundamental misunderstanding, because there is no oath of secrecy for people who work in the intelligence community. You are asked to sign a civil agreement, called a Standard Form 312, which basically says if you disclose classified information, they can sue you; they can do this, that and the other. And you risk going to jail. Edward Snowden jail agreement people When it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth. The technical sector is the backbone of the American economy, and if we start engaging in these kind of behaviors, in these kind of attacks, we're setting a standard, we're creating a new international norm of behavior that says this is what nations do. This is what developed nations do. Edward Snowden warfare creating earth I don't think I have committed a crime outside the domain of the US. Edward Snowden crime domain thinking One of the kind of unexpectedly liberating things of becoming this global fugitive is the fact that you don't worry so much about tomorrow. You think more about today. And unexpectedly, I like that very much. Edward Snowden worry today thinking We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency. Edward Snowden surveillance agency needs The reality is if we sit back and allow a few officials behind closed doors to launch offensive attacks without any oversight against foreign nations, against people we don't like, against political groups, radicals, and extremists whose ideas we may not agree with, and could be repulsive or even violent - if we let that happen without public buy-in, we won't have any seat at the table of government to decide whether or not it's appropriate for these officials to drag us into some kind of war activity that we don't want, but we weren't aware of at the time. Edward Snowden government war reality You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will. Edward Snowden agency risk powerful We need the security standards to apply to the internet. We need to be able to trust that when we send our emails through Verizon, that Verizon isn't sharing with the NSA, that Verizon isn't sharing them with the FBI or German intelligence or French intelligence or Russian intelligence or Chinese intelligence. Edward Snowden nsa email chinese
