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I'm not a spy, which is the real question

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Edward Snowden
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 21
Computer Scientist
Dissident
Intelligence Analyst
Intelligence Officer
Security Guard
System Administrator
Whistleblower
Elizabeth City
North Carolina
Edward Joseph Snowden
Ed Snowden
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I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile.
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I considered bringing forward information about these surveillance programs prior to the election, but I held off because I believed that [Barack] Obama was genuine when he said he was going to change things. I wanted to give the democratic process time to work.
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I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance.
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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.
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We have to be able to ask questions in order to answer them.
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Bulk collection means all of your communications are being secretly intercepted. They are being stolen as they cross India, and they're being stored in these silos so that they can be rifled through at the convenience of secret agents, basically.
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There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.
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The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority is weakening our security, just so they have a better chance of keeping an eye on us.
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I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations, an image of what proper civil disobedience is - one that is simply ineffective.
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Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.
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I'm ultimately satisfied that we know a little bit more about how the world really works.
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People have to be free to investigate computer security. People have to be free to look for the vulnerabilities and create proof of concept code to show that they are true vulnerabilities in order for us to secure our systems.
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The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support.
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There were no whistleblower protections that would've protected me - and that's known to everybody in the intelligence community. There are no proper channels for making this information available when the system fails comprehensively.
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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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I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.
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I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded.
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We have to argue forcefully and demand that the government recognise that these programmes do not prevent - mass surveillance does not prevent acts of terrorism.
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It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.
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There is a technical solution to every political problem...
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