I know that fundamentally, changes to the fabric of the internet, and sort of our methods of communication, can enforce our rights.
Edward SnowdenYou would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is.
Edward SnowdenEver since I've been here [in Russia], my life has been consumed with work that's actually fulfilling and satisfying.
Edward SnowdenIncreasingly we're seeing these ultra-partisan sites getting larger and larger readerships because people are self-selecting themselves into communities.
Edward SnowdenUntil we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era, we're not going to be able to put the security back in the NSA.
Edward SnowdenCustom developed digital weapons, cyber weapons nowadays typically chain together a number of zero-day exploits that are targeted against the specific site, the specific target that they want to hit. But it depends, this level of sophistication, on the budget and the quality of the actor who's instigating the attack. If it's a country that's less poor or less sophisticated, it'll be a less sophisticated attack.
Edward Snowden