“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.” CountryDevelopmentInternetResearchTerritoryAggressiveOther CountriesHostileResearch And Development Author:Edward Snowden
“America should be cooling down the tensions in the internet, making it a more trusted environment, making it a more secure environment, making it a more reliable environment, because that's the foundation of our economy and our future.” ShouldAmericaEconomyEnvironmentInternetFoundationSecureTensionOur FutureTrustedCooling Author:Edward Snowden
“US has to be able to rely on a safe and interconnected internet in order to compete with other countries.” CountryAbleOrderInternetSafeRelyOther CountriesInterconnected Author:Edward Snowden
“When people conceptualize a cyber-attack, they do tend to think about parts of the critical infrastructure like power plants, water supplies, and similar sort of heavy infrastructure, critical infrastructure areas. And they could be hit, as long as they're network connected, as long as they have some kind of systems that interact with them that could be manipulated from internet connection.” PeopleThinkingKindLongWaterInternetAreasConnectionsPlantHeavyConnectedCriticalInfrastructureSuppliesCyberPower PlantsInternet ConnectionCyber Attacks Author:Edward Snowden
“What has a great value to us as a nation is the internet itself. The internet is critical infrastructure to the United States. We use the internet for every communication that businesses rely on every day.” StatesUseValuesNationsUnitedUnited StatesCommunicationInternetCriticalRelyInfrastructureGreat Value Author:Edward Snowden
“If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire parts of the United States could be cut off. That would have a tremendous impact on us as a society and it would have a policy backlash.” IfsStatesTogetherUnitedUnited StatesCuttingPolicyInternetConnectionsImpactPlantCoreTiesTargetAdversariesBackboneBacklashPower PlantsInternet Connection Author:Edward Snowden
“When we talk about computer network exploitation, computer network attack, we're not just talking about your home PC. We're talking about your cell phone, and we're also talking about internet routers themselves. The NSA is attacking the critical infrastructure of the internet to try to take ownership of it. They hack the routers that connect nations to the internet itself.” TryingHomeNationsTalkingInternetComputerPhonesCriticalCellsOwnershipExploitationInfrastructureAttackingCell PhoneNsaHacks Author:Edward Snowden
“We need to make sure that whenever we're engaging in a cyber-warfare campaign, a cyber-espionage campaign in the United States, that we understand the word cyber is used as a euphemism for the internet, because the American public would not be excited to hear that we're doing internet warfare campaigns, internet espionage campaigns, because we realize that we ourselves are impacted by it.” NeedsStatesUsedRealizingUnitedUnited StatesInternetExcitedCampaignsWarfareEngagingEspionageCyberEuphemismCyber Warfare Author:Edward Snowden
“The internet is shared critical infrastructure for everyone on earth. It's not supposed to be a domain of warfare. We're not supposed to be putting the Unied States' economy on the frontlines in the battleground.” StatesEarthEconomyInternetCriticalSupposed To BeWarfareInfrastructureDomainBattlegroundFrontline Author:Edward Snowden
“When you're attacking a router on the internet, and you're doing it remotely, it's like trying to shoot the moon with a rifle. Everything has to happen exactly right. Every single variable has to be controlled and precisely accounted for. And that's not possible to do when you have limited knowledge of the target you're attacking.” TryingHappensInternetMoonTargetControlledAttackingRiflesVariablesLimited Knowledge Author:Edward Snowden
“The United States need to put internet processes, policies, and procedures in place with real laws that forbid going beyond the borders of what's reasonable to ensure that the only time that we and other countries around the world exercise these authorities are when it is absolutely necessary.” WorldNeedsRealCountryStatesLawProcessUnitedUnited StatesPolicyInternetExerciseAuthorityAround The WorldBordersReasonableOther CountriesOnly TimeProceduresPolicies And Procedures Author:Edward Snowden
“The internet exchange is sort of the core points where all of the international cables come together, where all of the internet service providers come together, and they trade lines with each other. These are priority one targets for any sort of espionage agency, because they provide access to so many people's communications.” PeopleTogetherLinesCommunicationInternetTradeInternationalAccessPrioritiesCoreAgencyTargetCablesEspionageProvidersService Providers Author:Edward Snowden
“Internet exchanges and internet service providers - international fiber optic landing points - these are the key tools that governments go after in order to enable their programs of mass surveillance. If they want to be able to watch the entire population of a country instead of a single individual, you have to go after those bulk interchanges.” IfsWantCountryGovernmentAbleOrderIndividualWatchesKeysInternetMassProgramToolsInternationalPopulationSurveillanceLandingFiberProvidersInterchangeService Providers Author:Edward Snowden
“A 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.” TogetherGivenWrittenKeysReaderInternetOfficeMethodVulnerabilityZeroSoftwareLocksPackagesExploitsMicrosoftHackingServer Author:Edward Snowden
“We 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.” IfsShouldForceTermDecisionMilitaryInternetComputerHappeningsApplicationMilitary Force Author:Edward Snowden
“Defending ourselves from internet-based attacks, internet-originated attacks, is much, much more important than our ability to launch attacks against similar targets in foreign countries.” ImportantCountryAbilityInternetTargetForeign Countries Author:Edward Snowden
“When it comes to the internet, when it comes to the United States' technical economy, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.” StatesEarthNationsLosesUnitedUnited StatesEconomyInternet Author:Edward Snowden
“It's important to remember when you start doing things like attacking hospitals through the internet, when you start attacking things like internet exchange points, when something goes wrong, people can die. If a hospital's infrastructure is affected, lifesaving equipment turns off.” PeopleIfsImportantRememberDiesTurnsInternetAffectedHospitalsEquipmentRemember WhenInfrastructureAttackingTurn Off Author:Edward Snowden
“The internet is the most complex system that humans have ever invented. And with every internet enabled operation that we've seen so far, all of these offensive operations, we see knock on effects. We see unintended consequences.” HumansEffectsInternetConsequenceComplexesOperationsOffensiveComplex SystemsUnintended Consequences Author:Edward Snowden
“The United States is more reliant on the technical systems. We're more reliant on the critical infrastructure of the internet than any other nation out there. And when there's such a low barrier to entering the domain of cyber-attacks we're starting a fight that we can't win.” StatesFightingWinningNationsUnitedUnited StatesInternetLowsStartingCriticalBarriersEnteringInfrastructureDomainCan't WinCyberCyber Attacks Author:Edward Snowden
“Every time we walk on to the field of battle and the field of battle is the internet, it doesn't matter if we shoot our opponents a hundred times and hit every time. As long as they've hit us once, we've lost, because the U.S. is so much more reliant on those systems.” IfsLongMatterLostWalksFieldsInternetBattleHundredOpponents Author:Edward Snowden
“The United States need to be focusing more on creating a more secure, more reliable, more robust, and more trusted internet, not one that's weaker, not one that relies on this systemic model of exploiting every vulnerability, every threat out there.” NeedsStatesUnitedUnited StatesInternetCreatingModelsThreatSecureVulnerabilityRelyTrustedRobust Author:Edward Snowden
“Every time somebody on the internet sort of glances at us sideways, we launch an attack at them. That's not going to work out for us long term, and the U.S. have to get ahead of the problem if we're going to succeed.” IfsLongProblemTermInternetSucceedWork OutLong TermGlancesGoing To WorkGet AheadSideways Author:Edward Snowden
“The public don't want to authorize the internet to become a battleground. We need to do everything we can as a society to keep that a neutral zone, to keep that an economic zone that can reflect our values, both politically, socially, and economically.” WantNeedsValuesEconomicInternetZoneBattleground Author:Edward Snowden
“Something we have to remember is that everything about the internet is interconnected. All of our systems are not just common to us because of the network links between them, but because of the software packages, because of the hardware devices that comprise it. The same router that's deployed in the United States is deployed in China.” StatesRememberUnitedCommonUnited StatesInternetChinaDevicesLinksSoftwarePackagesHardwareInterconnected Author:Edward Snowden
“There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called proxy chains where they gain access to a number of different systems around the world, sometimes by hacking these, and they use them as sort of relay boxes.” WorldDifferentSometimesUseNumbersInternetGainsBoxesAccessChainsAround The WorldTypicalHackingHackersServerProxyRelays Author:Edward Snowden
“We need the security standards to apply to the internet. We need to be able to trust that when we send our emails through Verizon, that Verizon isn't sharing with the NSA, that Verizon isn't sharing them with the FBI or German intelligence or French intelligence or Russian intelligence or Chinese intelligence.” NeedsAbleSecurityInternetStandardsChineseEmailFbiNsa Author:Edward Snowden
“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.” LosesEconomyEffectsInternetNormalConsequenceBasesMediumsRelyBroadsProtectedNormal LifeMonitoring Author:Edward Snowden
“The community of technical experts who really manage the internet, who built the internet and maintain it, are becoming increasingly concerned about the activities of agencies like the NSA or Cyber Command, because what we see is that defense is becoming less of a priority than offense.” CommunityBecomingInternetActivityBuiltConcernedDefensePrioritiesCommandManageExpertsAgencyOffenseNsaCyber Author:Edward Snowden
“It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.” ThinkingWorldLongWould BeAgeTodayAbleFilmPoliticalInterestingSecretTypeInternetPeriodsThis DayEspionageLong Periods Of TimeToday's WorldWikileaksHooverJ Edgar Hoover Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“Internationally, there are countries going well beyond the course, with airlines, transportation. There are systems around the world that have explored mining, rail transport, television, communication, Internet service - there very common examples around the world that we can draw examples from.” WorldWellsCountryCoursesCommonExampleTelevisionCommunicationInternetDrawsAround The WorldAirlineTransportationTransportRailMining Author:Gar Alperovitz
“Alaska Governor Sarah Palin pardoned a turkey, though she said she was amazed to find out that, besides being a bird, Turkey is also a country. Did you see that all over the Internet today? While Sarah Palin was pardoning a turkey, right behind her was a guy slaughtering turkeys. But, see, like most Internet stories, a little half-true. Turns out that, after a couple of minutes listening to Sarah Palin's voice, the turkeys said 'Kill us now.'” LittlesSaidCountryStoriesTodayGuyTurnsVoiceBehindsHalfMinutesListeningCoupleInternetBirdGovernorsAmazedTurkeysAlaskaPalin Author:Jay Leno
“It was reported today that former Governor Howard Dean raised $14 million dollars in campaign funds mostly over the Internet. Of course, Dean's success could be contributed to his Web site: www.wetboobies.” TodayCoursesMillionsInternetDollarsRaisedCampaignsFormerFundGovernorsSiteMillion DollarsDean Author:Conan O'Brien
“One of the more popular activities was “Talk-O-Matic”. Five people at a time could write messages, and read each other's messages, on the same screen. Today, Internet chat rooms work on the same principle. One of the remarkable new features of this page was that you could log in with an invented name, and pretend you were anyone you wanted - any name, any age, any gender. One favorite trick was to log in using the name of someone else already logged into the page, simply to confuse everyone else.” PeopleWritingAgeTodayWantedNamesRoomsPrinciplesFiveInternetActivityMessagesPagesGenderScreensTricksFeaturesRemarkable Author:Guy Consolmagno
“We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.” BrainInternetConnectedGiantsNeurons Author:Stephen Hawking
“The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end.” Has BeensEndsBigsFacesCenturyIndustryInternetComputerImportanceReactionsCorporationsBig Corporations Author:Douglas Adams
“I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna be tuning into the most popular Internet show in the world, which will be coming from some place in Des Moines. We're all gonna lose our jobs. We're all gonna be on the Internet trying to find an audience.” ThinkingWorldTryingShowsJobsLosesAudienceEffectsIndustryInternetProfoundEntertainmentEntertainment IndustryTuningDes Moines Author:Steven Spielberg
“An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.” HumansIdeasFormCreativityInternetOriginalsVersionsGenesSelectionAlteredAccuracyCopyingOriginal IdeasMemesHijacking Author:Richard Dawkins
“I share every aspect of my life with the internet. Whether or not that's a good thing I don't know.” KnowsShareInternetAspectGood Things Author:Troye Sivan
“You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.” PeopleYoungInternetCommandNonsenseDoomGloomDoom And Gloom Author:Margaret Atwood
“Common criticism of the Internet is that it is dominated by the crude, the uninformed, the immature, the smug, the untalented, the repetitious, the pathetic, the hostile, the deluded, the sefl-righteous, and the shrill. This criticism overlooks the fact that the Internet also offers - for the savvy individual who knows where to look - the tasteless and borderline insane.” KnowsLooksFactsIndividualCommonInternetOffersCriticismInsaneRighteousHostilePatheticCrudeImmatureDeludedSavvyBorderlineUninformedUntalented Author:Dave Barry
“I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.” PeopleUseFoundTalkingTroubleInternetFundamentalsOnlineShockingLiteracyGrammarScoldedSimply You Author:Margaret Atwood
“I don't want people to see me fall. I mean, I got enough people cheering for me to fall now... The Internet has created some amazing place for evil to exist, you dig?” PeopleWantMeanEnoughFallEvilInternetCheerAmazing Places Author:Steve Harvey
“I kind of like to look at the ranch on Google, reminds me of where I want to be sometimes.” WantLooksKindSometimesInternetGoogleHomesickness Author:George W. Bush
“You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.” KnowsGovernmentGamesSecurityInternetActivityFairsOpeningDataPrivacyMailCollectingFelonyFair Game Author:E. A. Bucchianeri
“Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.” PeopleIfsInternetUnderstoodAssumingVery GoodEnginesGoogleSearch Engine Author:Rory Sutherland
“We can literally unplug a country from the Internet. We ought to think about unplugging them.” ThinkingCountryOughtInternetFree Speech Author:Richard A. Clarke
“I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.” WantMayStatesAsksNationsJusticeSinCrimeInternetMinistersFree SpeechBedroomAsking For Forgiveness Author:Pierre Trudeau