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" Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Fake
Journalism
News
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" Generally, people's fear and hesitancy regarding greater computerization comes from a George Orwell/'1984'-based metaphor of a single computer or data base where all your information is stored, knows everything about you, and can use this information at will and for evil purposes. "
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Fear
Information
People
" We Estonians will do what is necessary to join the European Union. "
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Will
Join
European Union
" People have actually figured out that Estonia is one of the few post-Communist countries that has a genuine image in people's minds as being something. "
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Minds
Image
Few
" I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's 'New York Times.' "
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Reading
Father
New
" Cybersecurity needs to be taken seriously by everyone. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Everyone
Taken
Seriously
" Since I've been writing about things my entire life, I thought, 'Well, that's what I would do as a president is to read and then write and talk about things that are interesting to me.' "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Thought
Interesting
Life
" Nothing costs more than the loss of freedom. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Nothing
More
Loss
" When hackers have access to powerful computers that use brute force hacking, they can crack almost any password; even one user with insecure access being successfully hacked can result in a major breach. "
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Computers
Result
Hacking
" Where a country lies is a subjective decision and only in part a product of its own desire. Much, if not most, is determined by what others believe about it. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Believe
Own
Desire
" I'm not afraid of code. I mean, I understand how these things work. I thought that that was the one area where Estonia was playing on a level playing field. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Understand
Afraid
Mean
" The problem of online identity is expressed best in an old 'New Yorker' cartoon with a picture of a dog next to a computer, and the dog says, 'No one online knows you're a dog.' "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Dog
Best
Picture
" Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Political
Become
Media
" If getting young people computer-literate through putting school systems online is a no-brainer, at least in retrospect, getting older people and those in rural areas online can be a tougher nut to crack. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Young
School
People
" In a modern digitalized world, it is possible to paralyze a country without attacking its defense forces: The country can be ruined by simply bringing its SCADA systems to a halt. To impoverish a country, one can erase its banking records. The most sophisticated military technology can be rendered irrelevant. In cyberspace, no country is an island. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Country
Technology
Island
" George Bush and I share a love of steel brush cutters. It turns out we use the same professional brush cutter. He asked me what I did. I said I cut brush. He says, 'Oh, what do you use?' I said steel. He goes, 'Oh, me too.' "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Said
Steel
You
" The Russian Federation's practice of instant citizenship, whereby Russian passports are distributed willy-nilly to ethnic Russians abroad so they can be 'protected' in their current homeland, is unacceptable. Passports are travel documents, not a tool to justify aggression. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Justify
Practice
Travel
" The domestic policy of any president, U.S. or otherwise, is his or her own concern, as long as democratic norms are followed. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Long
Own
Norms
" Big data knows and can deduce more about you than Big Brother ever could. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
You
Big Brother
Brother
" It's much cheaper to influence elections than it is to go to war. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
War
Influence
Go
" When Estonia reestablished its sovereignty after a half century of successive thuggish, totalitarian, foreign occupations by the Soviets, the Nazis, and then again the Soviets, we knew we wanted to create a democratic country characterized by rule of law and respect for human rights. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Law
Respect
Country
" Little by little, we're becoming a boring Nordic country. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Country
Little
Boring
" In Germany, a country that for obvious reasons is far more attuned than most to the dangers of demagogy, populism, and nationalism, lawmakers have already proposed taking legal measures against fake news. When populist, nationalist fake news threatens the liberal democratic center, other Europeans may follow suit. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Legal
News
Nationalism
" Until defense of democracy in the digital era is taken up by governments collectively, both in NATO and outside the alliance, liberal democracies will remain vulnerable to the cyberthreats of the 21st century. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Up
Digital
Will
" Democracies stand on several key pillars: Free and fair elections, human rights, the rule of law, and a free untrammeled media. Until 2016, an open media was seen as a resilient democratic pillar that supported the others. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Law
Elections
Free
" Can the wider West establish a global 'cyber NATO?' It would be difficult, but so, too, was the founding of NATO itself, which was called into being only after successive communist coups in Eastern Europe. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
West
Only
Difficult
" In both Russia and the U.S., there are a very small number of very, very rich people, and then there are a lot of people who don't have anything. The less inequality you have in a society, the more social peace you have. It's kind of a no-brainer. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Peace
Rich
Small
" My American undergraduate education probably gave me a better idea of the fundamentals of what European civilization is about, better than the undergraduate education you get at most European universities. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Education
Better
You
" I realised that if we were not in the E.U., there were people in the E.U. who were also members of NATO that would veto our joining NATO. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
People
NATO
Members
" Digital warfare, in the Clausewitz definition as 'the continuation of policy by other means,' reached Western public consciousness via my own country, Estonia, in 2007 when our governmental, banking, and news media servers were hit with 'distributed denial-of-service attacks,' which is when hackers overload servers until they shut down. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Own
News
Country
" There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Identity
Language
Group