Heather Brooke Quotes
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Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.
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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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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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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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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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I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.
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A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber warfare.
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In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown.
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It is scrutiny by the general public that keeps the powerful honest.
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We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.
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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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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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There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death.
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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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The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.
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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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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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When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course. And I just found myself back in journalism again.
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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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Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.
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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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In whose interest is it to hype up the collapse of the Internet from a DDoS attack? Why, the people who provide cyber security services, of course.
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The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.