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They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.
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
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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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We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back.
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All I was was a mechanism.
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I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong.
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Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone.
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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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As for labeling someone a whistleblower, I think it does them - it does all of us - a disservice, because it otherizes us.
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I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.
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The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to be able to defend ourselves. And we can't do that as long as we're subverting our own security standards for the sake of surveillance.
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Internet exchanges and internet service providers - international fiber optic landing points - these are the key tools that governments go after in order to enable their programs of mass surveillance. If they want to be able to watch the entire population of a country instead of a single individual, you have to go after those bulk interchanges.
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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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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.
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Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.
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And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under.
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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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You shouldn't send an email from a computer that's associated with you if you don't want it to be tracked back to you. You don't want to hack the power plant from your house if you don't want them to follow the trail back and see your IP address.
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They [the authorities] will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night.
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I don't care if I end up in jail or Guantánamo or whatever, kicked out of a plane with two gunshots in the face. I did what I did because I believe it is the right thing to do, and I will continue to do that.
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