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We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers.

Edward Snowden

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Edward Snowden
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 21
Computer Scientist
Dissident
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Elizabeth City
North Carolina
Edward Joseph Snowden
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People would publish their websites other people would read them. But there was no real back and forth other than through e-mail. Web 2.0 was what they called the collaborative web - Facebook, Twitter, the social media.
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[Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have been unlawful and unconstitutional.
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The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.
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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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If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.
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We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.
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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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I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.
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I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose.
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If you seek to help, join the open source community and fight to keep the spirit of the press alive and the internet free. I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.
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For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.
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I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.
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When the US government got word that I was planning to leave Russia to go to Latin America, they brought down the plane of the - the presidential plane, which had diplomatic protection, that had the Bolivian president on board. They closed the airspace in four different countries in Europe, I believe, which was extraordinary, unprecedented.
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The FBI was creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.
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All I was was a mechanism.
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It's much easier, I think, to protect communications while they're in transit at least, than it is to enforce legislation in every country in the world to say that you can't do this.
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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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When we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look at international law to see the failings in them.
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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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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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