Quotes About Surveillance

If you want to travel on the airline system, you give up your privacy. If you want your privacy, don't fly. Flying is voluntary.

We no longer know whom to trust. This is the greatest damage the NSA has done to the Internet, and will be the hardest to fix.

They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running.

Thieves, spies and other wise guys are working everywhere…including in branches of the U.S. government.

The NSA employs more mathematicians, buys more computer hardware, and intercepts more messages than any other organization in the world.

This isn't an accident; this happens because to people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below. They need to watch us. They need to monitor what we're thinking. It's the only thing between them and a guillotine.

I'm watching you, Josh," she said. "So are the police. You can't hide anymore. You're going to have to keep looking over your shoulder, wherever you go now, because they will come for you soon, and when they do, I will be there to watch.

He told me later that he was surprised to learn that with flat surfaces the amount of radar energy returning to the sender is independent of the target's size. A small airplane, a bomber, an aircraft carrier, all with the same shape, will have identical radar cross sections.

Put a cat to watch a flock and the wolves eat well.

Put a cat to guard the sheep and the wolves would eat well.

When any of us surfs the Web, when we do a search or make a purchase, or even when a Turkish, Egyptian, or Russian dissident communicates via Skype or FaceTime, we leave behind us fingerprints that Big Brother will use in any way that pleases him, whether it is to cash in or clamp down.

If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps.

While the federal government is required by law to document publicly its wiretapping of phone lines, it is not required to do so with Internet communications.

I love researching all sorts of weird stuff. I always say, 'God help me if the FBI came across my Internet search history.'

There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.

You cannot let him out of your sight, literally. You've always got to ask: 'what's Ronaldo doing, where is Ronaldo?'

I believe there is significant overreach by the NSA in how it monitors American citizens.

I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.

Hence it is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for purposes of spying and thereby they achieve great results. Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. An army without secret agents is exactly like a man without eyes or ears.

Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.

Cameras define reality in the two ways essential to the workings of an advanced industrial society: as a spectacle (for masses) and an object of surveillance (for rulers).

These are children talking in their own homes about anything and everything. Why is Amazon keeping these voice recordings?

A Pause followed my greeting. Then, 'We're watching you,' whispered the voice on the other end. 'Yeah? Did you see what I did with my keys?