Heather Brooke Quotes
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Hackers often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving.
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We pay a lot for our court service, but it's not enough. Courts are under-resourced, which leads to delayed justice - particularly in criminal courts.
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Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.
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Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social status, and where ideas and knowledge hold primary value.
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Parliamentarians certainly know how to do bad public relations.
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A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber warfare.
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When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.
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There are corporate private investigators, companies doing very forensic background checks on people. They buy data, they get their own data... They don't want their industry publicised.
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There's not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics.
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It is quite surreal having a film made about your life. The whole process of turning real life into drama is interesting in itself, but even more so when it is your own life being put into the narrative forge.
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Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three.
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Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital form, it becomes very easy for them to be shared.
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You don't make a system more effective by increasing the number of regulators.
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We need to codify our values and build consensus around what we want from a free society and a free Internet. We need to put into law protections for our privacy and our right to speak and assemble.
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As the news agenda goes into warp speed, it becomes ever more difficult for authors writing about current events to keep their books timely and relevant.
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I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.
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Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.
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The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.
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There's a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see is that there is more need than ever to have experienced information processors - people who can look through this mass of data.
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When I came to Britain I was in awe of the British press, afraid of them. But they're not as ferocious as people think. In some instances they are, but when it comes to taking on power they're really deferential.
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We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.
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It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.
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I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government.
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The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.