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I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.
Edward Snowden
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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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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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I don't think I have committed a crime outside the domain of the US.
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One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and I'm going to be a drunk and I'm never going to do anything. I don't drink. I've never been drunk in my life. And they talk about Russia like it's the worst place on earth. Russia's great.
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We decentralise the ability to decide the level of publicity that's attached to any of our communications.
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It's fascinating to see how things have changed. Basically, every time the US government gets off the soapbox of the Sunday-morning talk shows, the average American's support for the surveillance revelations grows.
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I have had no contact with the Chinese government ... I only work with journalists.
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The question is: Particularly in the post-9/11 era, are societies becoming more liberal or more authoritarian?
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It also comes down to parenting. It is important to know what your beliefs are, and that you have to stand up for them or you don't really believe in them. You know, my father and mother - in fact, every member of my immediate family - have worked for the federal government. Sometimes misunderstood is that I didn't stand up to overthrow the system.
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We have to be able to ask questions in order to answer them.
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Being confronted with the realization that work you intended to benefit people is being used against them has a radicalizing effect.
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You would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is.
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Radicals are not going to disappear. They're going to go underground. They're going to be hardened. And they're not going to be exposed to contrary ideas made by educated people who can make real, convincing, and persuasive arguments to deradicalise these people.
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I'm still working for the government.
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We have got a CIA station just up the road – the consulate here in Hong Kong – and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be.
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My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.
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You don't need to justify your rights as a citizen - that inverts the model of responsibility. The government must justify its intrusion into your rights. If you stop defending your rights by saying, I don't need them in this context or I can't understand this, they are no longer rights.
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The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.
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Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.
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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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