Edward Snowden Quotes

In any software work, you have IT consultancy competence required to build the systems.

I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.

I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.

We've had such thorough training, we've had an excellent team on the ground. With the minor glitches that have occurred, we've been able to take care of them. And the teams on the ground are getting tons of incredible data.

I actually love technology. I worked for 18 years as systems analyst in technology.

I'm not technical.

I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.

As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians are needed to install, monitor, repair, test, and upgrade all the equipment.

There is still much to be done by our intelligence community to bring its achievements up to an acceptable level.

My dad used to build computers for the U.S. government, for military intelligence. So he always had computers around the house.

I'm not really good with technology.

It's important to have IT knowledge; it's important to increase every government agency's IT capability.

I used to work for Symantec AV: I worked as their in-house IT technician, and then I worked as specialized AV support, and then I worked for Hartford Life IT, in Dublin and London. I worked in IT from '99 through to 2007.

I'm not an IT expert myself.

As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.

So when they say I'm a low-level systems administrator, that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's somewhat misleading.

I'm very much a technical person.

Snowden was extremely good at digital self-defense. When he was employed by the C.I.A. and N.S.A., one of his jobs was to teach U.S. national security officials and C.I.A. employees how to protect their data in high-threat digital environments.

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money.

You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.

The safety and security of the nation depends more so than ever before on intelligence.

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts.

You can’t really understand the challenges involved with any major tech project until you start trying to build it.