Edward Snowden Quotes

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.

Facebook has a rule that you're not supposed to be anonymous.

I knew Tim Pastoor. I knew Sherry Ford. I knew many of the individuals who would follow me around. I knew who they were. I knew they had access to my email.

I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.

It's insane, the Internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

By Googling myself, I'm not going to find anything I like.

I don't like showing my privacy online.

The idea that you can be totally anonymous in the digital age is increasingly hard to execute.

On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.

The Internet is just an abstract place. Sure, I've become part of that in some way, but it's hard for me to wrap my head around a lot of it. I prefer just to kind of stay out of it.

You can't troll somebody who doesn't see it.

The Internet is a seemingly unreal environment where we think we are anonymous. It's a potentially provocative place. As a result, we may not behave the way we would in the real world. Some of us are drawn into what could become a dangerous situation.

I have a message for all the birdies who try to get in touch with people online who they think might help them to meet me or give my personal information. That will never happen. Don't believe anything anyone tells you on social media about me because not even my parents know what I am up to.

We are like Hansel and Gretel, leaving bread crumbs of our personal information everywhere we travel through the digital woods.

You know, it's so funny that the internet's become a series of traps where you do sort of innocent things like give your name or address or indicate a preference, I like this thing, and then therefore you open yourself up to a deluge of advertising based on those stated preferences.

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.

I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble.

Why would I want anything that's private to become entertainment for other people?

In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you.

The only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all.

If you have a disease and suddenly start getting ads for cures for that disease and it's an embarrassing disease - all that kind of stuff it just gets into that zone of autonomy or privacy where you feel a sense of freedom to be who you want to be.

I think some of the most interesting stuff was seeing how the Dark Web works and seeing how easy it is for hackers to break into your computer or your bank account or your private information.

According to a new study, our email is not as safe as we thought. How do they know this? They've been reading my email.