75 Quotes by Heather Brooke

The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.

Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.

Hackers often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving.

The way the Establishment deals with people like me is to ignore them. When you become unignorable, they will try to smear you, and that's what I feared for a long time. Now I have somehow vaulted into this space where it's difficult for someone to smear me because it would look as though they were being vindictive and spiteful.

Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.

CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.

If any of us were faced with a huge bag of free money and very little accountability, it would be human nature that you would make the most of it.

It seems appropriate that the author of '1984' was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British public's lamb-like disposition toward its leaders could be exploited to create a police state.