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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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Edward Snowden
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 21
Computer Scientist
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Security Guard
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Whistleblower
Elizabeth City
North Carolina
Edward Joseph Snowden
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Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on.
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I have used mass surveillance to target people, so I do know how it works.
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We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers.
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US administration does not want me to return. People forget how I ended up in Russia. They waited until I departed Hong Kong to cancel my passport in order to trap me in Russia, because it's the most effective attack they have against me, given the political climate in the United States.
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It is interesting that so many people who become disenchanted, who protest against their own organizations, are people who contributed something to them and then saw how it was misused.
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I love my country. I love my family. And I have dedicated my life to both of them.
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If a single Russian source would come forward, he would be in hot water. And in the United States, what I did appearing at that [Vladimir] Putin press conference was not worth the price.
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I'm not an anarchist. I'm not saying, Burn it to the ground.
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Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.
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We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our technological capabilities.
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Let's put it this way. The United States government has assembled a massive investigation team into me personally, into my work with the journalists, and they still have no idea what documents were provided to the journalist, what they have, what they don't have, because encryption works.
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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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I talk to cryptographers, some of the leading technologists in the world, all the time about how we can deal with these issues. It is not possible to create a back door that is only accessible, for example, to the FBI.
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