All over the world, the barriers between what is inside an organisation and outside an organisation are being smoothed out. In the military, the use of contractors means that what is the military and what is not the military is smoothed out.
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.
It’s interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.
I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.
You can’t do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you’re in.
Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.
During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.
The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.
I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.
Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.
The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn’t reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.
I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I’m no rapist.
The goal is justice, the method? is transparency. It’s important not to confuse the goal and the method.
I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.
To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.
I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable.
Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.
Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.