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.
Edward SnowdenWe should never allow computers to make inherently governmental decisions in terms of the application of military force, even if that's happening on the internet.
Edward SnowdenIf you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage, we, the people, will have to put forth our own extra governmental models and methods of trying to restore the balance of liberty to the liberal tradition of Western society.
Edward SnowdenUS spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a more aggressive territory.
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