{"quotes":[{"text":"These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.","author":"Edward Snowden","tags":["diplomatic-manipulation","economic-espionage","edward-snowden","leaking","leaks","mass-surveillance","nsa","power","snowden","social-control","surveillance","whistleblower","whistleblowing","xkeyscore"],"id":11888,"author_id":"Edward+Snowden"},{"text":"An imaginary friend once asked me why Americans can't stand Russia. The answer was cold, deadly, silent, and, well expected. It’s because in Soviet Russia nothing happens anymore, because it doesn’t exist anymore. And Americans are all about happenings. If there isn’t one – they don’t go where it isn’t, because there isn’t anything to happen to them there.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["america","answer","answers","cold","deadly","death","expectation","expectations","expected","friend","happening","happenings","imaginary","imagination","imagined","kgb","nothing","nsa","question","questions","russia","silence","silent","soviet-russia","soviet-union","ussr"],"id":23787,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.","author":"Barton Gellman","tags":["evidence","between","nsa "],"id":61584,"author_id":"Barton+Gellman"},{"text":"I'm an oracle of the past. I can accurately predict up to 1 minute in the future, by thoroughly investigating the last 2 years of your life. Also, I look like an old database – flat and full of useless info.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["accuracy","appearance","appearances","database","databases","flat","flatness","full","fullness","future","nothing","nsa","oracle","past","prediction","predictions","private","thorough","thoroughly","thoroughness","time","useless","years"],"id":65639,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.","author":"Edward Snowden","tags":["free-press","free-speech","information-age","internet","mass-surveillance","nothing-to-hide","nsa","privacy","snowden","surveillance"],"id":98876,"author_id":"Edward+Snowden"},{"text":"The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.","author":"Barton Gellman","tags":["government","different","nsa "],"id":145504,"author_id":"Barton+Gellman"},{"text":"Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.","author":"Edward Snowden","tags":["chilling-effect","democracy","liberty","nsa","surveillance","surveillance-society"],"id":203719,"author_id":"Edward+Snowden"},{"text":"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.","author":"Bruce Schneier","tags":["cryptography","dystopia","edward-snowden","espionage","google","internet-privacy","internet-security","liberty","microsoft","nsa","privacy","surveillance","surveillance-society","technology"],"id":211123,"author_id":"Bruce+Schneier"},{"text":"The NSA?'Yeah, they called and offered to help out. Same software they use for enhancing spy satellite imagery.'Venkat shrugged. 'It's amazing how much red tape gets cut when everyone's rooting for one man to survive.","author":"Andy Weir","tags":["bureaucracy","nsa","red-tape","satellite","spy","survival"],"id":233201,"author_id":"Andy+Weir"},{"text":"I'm always under surveillance from both the NSA, the Russian KGB, and the Bulgarian Army, so I'm the most invisible.","author":"Stefan D","tags":["army","invisible","kgb","military","nlp","notability","nsa","surveillance"],"id":251698,"author_id":"Stefan+D"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}