Quotes About Surveillance

It's going to require numerous IRA agents.

"Well-- I don't know-- the cops might not respond too well to you looking through their windows with a telescope."

The medium is the message, the message is encrypted, and the encryption key is controlled by NSA.

Black graffiti on a black helicopter.

You want me to spy on a National Colour operative?''Wow, ' she said, 'you got it. I thought I was going to have to explain that one for a lot longer.

My mother was either telepathic or she had secret cameras in my apartment, and I hoped for the latter.

Be the hunter, not the hunted: Never allow your unit to be caught with its guard down.

Children are paparazzi. They take your picture when you don't want them to.

It's alright. They never catch you twice." "Why wouldn't they?" "They never release you the first time.

In war, information is a half victory or defeat.

I'm on a government watch list. But I'm not interested, because government watches only work twenty minutes out of every hour.

observations. Therefore, the entire archbishop's residence, from the bedroom to the dining room, was bugged with listening devices. The communists were rather clumsy about it, pretending to show up as random technicians who needed to work on the phone lines or electrical system.

how a force of six or eight fight­ing men could have done so un­ob­served is be­yond me. We shall soon know, how­ev­er, for here comes the roy­al psy­chol­ogist.

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.

Be subtle. Use your spies for every kind of business. —SUN TZU, The Art of War

The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance. We have a responsibility to protect New Yorkers from violent crime or another terrorist attack - and we uphold the law in doing so.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

The open source nature of the Internet is both a blessing and a curse, because just as much as we can watch what's happening around the world, we can also be watched.

The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded.

I feel like I'm being watched. Always. Like, I want to tan topless somewhere, and I know I probably could never do that. Even if I'm upstairs in my bedroom, and the curtains are pulled, I feel like a paparazzo's outside on a boat somewhere, or somebody's peeping.

I watch people from the top of buses who don't know they're being watched. It's quite fascinating.

You could watch entire villages and see what everyone was doing. I watched NSA tracking people's Internet activities as they typed. I became aware of just how invasive U.S. surveillance capabilities had become. I realized the true breadth of this system. And almost nobody knew it was happening.

Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.

When you're on TV and in people's houses - it's great that anybody watches anything you've done, but you feel as though you're being watched by Big Brother sometimes. Even if people have no idea who you are, you get the feeling you're being watched.