Heather Brooke Quotes
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Slightly embarrassing admission: Even when I was a kid, I used to have these little spy books, and I would, like, see what everybody was doing in my neighborhood and log it down.
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A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber warfare.
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Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the Patriot Act weeks after 11 September, but, as the American public got to grips with how the law was affecting their individual rights, their protests grew loud and angry.
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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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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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Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.
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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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Parliamentarians certainly know how to do bad public relations.
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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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If you don't think there is any value in the work I, or any other serious journalists do, then don't spend your money on it. At least you have the choice.
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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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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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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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I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.
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There is a very intense culture of secrecy in Britain that hasn't yet been dismantled. What passes for transparency here would serve any secret society well.
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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 biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.
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You don't make a system more effective by increasing the number of regulators.
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We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.
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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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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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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.