US 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.
Edward SnowdenWe can't simply scare people into giving up their rights, on the basis, oh, this protects us from terrorism.
Edward SnowdenWhen governments go too far to punish people for actions that are dissent rather than a real threat to the nation, they risk delegitimizing not just their systems of justice, but the legitimacy of the government itself. Because when they bring political charges against people for acts that were clearly at least intended to work in the public interest, they deny them the opportunity to mount a public-interest defense.
Edward SnowdenIf we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.
Edward SnowdenWhen 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.
Edward SnowdenA zero-day exploit is a method of hacking a system. It's sort of a vulnerability that has an exploit written for it, sort of a key and a lock that go together to a given software package. It could be an internet web server. It could be Microsoft Office. It could be Adobe Reader or it could be Facebook.
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