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“Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant story that you have revealed?" […] There really is only one overarching point that all of these stories have revealed, and that is–and I say this without the slightest bit of hyperbole or melodrama; it's not metaphorical and it's not figurative; it is literally true–that the goal of the NSA and it's five eyes partners in the English speaking world–Canada, New Zealand, Australia and especially the UK–is to eliminate privacy globally, to ensure that there could be no human communications that occur electronically, that evades their surveillance net; they want to make sure that all forms of human communications by telephone or by Internet, and all online activities are collected, monitored, stored and analyzed by that agency and by their allies. That means, to describe that is to describe a ubiquitous surveillance state; you don't need hyperbole to make that claim, and you do not need to believe me when I say that that's their goal. Document after document within the archive that Edward Snowden provided us declare that to be their goal. They are obsessed with searching out any small little premise of the planet where some form of communications might take place without they being able to invade it.”

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Author:Glenn Greenwald
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“Even though we don't know which companies the NSA has compromised – or by what means – knowing that they could have compromised any of them is enough to make us mistrustful of all of them. This is going to make it hard for large companies like Google and Microsoft to get back the trust they lost. Even if they succeed in limiting government surveillance. Even if they succeed in improving their own internal security. The best they'll be able to say is: "We have secured ourselves from the NSA, except for the parts that we either don't know about or can't talk about.”

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Author:Bruce Schneier
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“1973 Fair Information Practices: - You should know who has your personal data, what data they have, and how it is used. - You should be able to prevent information collected about you for one purpose from being used for others. - You should be able to correct inaccurate information about you. - Your data should be secure. ..while it's illegal to use Brad Pitt's image to sell a watch without his permission, Facebook is free to use your name to sell one to your friends.”

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Book:The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You
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“Either Internet or Privacy (Cybersecurity 101, Sonnet) The purpose of a strong password is not to keep your accounts safe, but to keep your accounts moderately secure against common scammers, however, if you become a target of actual hackers, or a person of interest to the government, have no doubt, your internet activities are already monitored. Paranoia of cybersecurity only ruins sanity, it does nothing to establish security. No technology that's connected to the internet is unhackable, either you can have internet or privacy. So, don't post family pictures online, keep your passwords moderately complex, refrain from consentless content, cloud is the last place to be private.”

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Book:Sonnets From The Mountaintop
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“The purpose of a strong password is not to keep your accounts safe, but to keep your accounts moderately secure against common scammers, however, if you become a target of actual hackers, or a person of interest to the government, have no doubt, your internet activities are already monitored.”

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Book:Sonnets From The Mountaintop
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