Heather Brooke Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.
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It is scrutiny by the general public that keeps the powerful honest.
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You can't hope for a better result as a campaigner than to have the prime minister announce a major policy change within 48 hours of your documentary.
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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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We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.
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Whether I'll get the chance to write fiction, I don't know. I could do political conspiracy thrillers, couldn't I? With an investigative journalist as the heroine.
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In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown.
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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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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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There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death.
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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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You don't make a system more effective by increasing the number of regulators.
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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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If the public can't see justice being done, or afford the costs of justice, then the entire system becomes little more than a cozy club solely for the benefit of judges, lawyers and their lackeys, a sort of care in the community for the upper middle classes.
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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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Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.
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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.