Edward Snowden Quotes About Challenges

• I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a chance to see these issues determined by open courts. Today, a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate Americans' rights. It is the first of many.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Light, Nsa

  "Snowden to NSA: I told you so" by Lauren Ashburn, www.foxnews.com. December 17, 2013.

• After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism.

  Edward Snowden

  Responsibility, Government, Nsa

  Interview with Peter Maass, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 2013.

• Los tribunales temían cuestionar las declaraciones del ejecutivo sobre lo que ocurriría. Ahora, en el último año, hemos visto -en casi todos los tribunales que han tenido este tipo de casos de seguridad nacional- que se han vuelto notablemente más escépticos.

  Edward Snowden

  Years, Challenges, Lasts

  Fuente: www.thenation.com

• By leaning on companies, by leaning on infrastructure providers, by leaning on researchers, graduate students, post-docs, even undergrads, to look at the challenges having an untrusted internet, where we have to put our communications on wires that are owned by a phone company that we can't trust, that's working in collaboration with a government that we can't trust, in areas around the world, we can restructure that communications fabric in a way that it's encrypted.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Phones, Government

  Fuente: www.nesta.org.uk

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