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" Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
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" Brits, Scandinavians, Finns, Estonians consider themselves rational, logical, unencumbered by emotional arguments; we are businesslike, stubborn, and hard-working. "
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" It's much cheaper to influence elections than it is to go to war. "
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" It is hard to work with the nagging doubt that perhaps some foreign intelligence agency is reading all your correspondence, especially when you know they have done so in the past. "
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" I'm an American by accent, and I grew up in the States, living there between the age of three and 24. "
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" The minute a collective alliance fails to live up to its agreement to collective defence, then from that moment on, everybody is on the run. "
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" Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive. "
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" Sanctions work over time. They do work, but it takes years for them to have an effect. "
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" I was surprised by some of my French colleagues who immediately assumed that because I spoke English with an American accent, that, therefore, you must be a supporter of whoever is the current president of the United States. There seems to be this widespread feeling that, 'Oh, American accent - therefore, you like cowboy boots.' "
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" The fake news is - I mean, as a tool of warfare - has been there for decades and decades and decades. It was never very well done until, really, the Ukraine, though I would say that the Russians used to complain about fake things to say the State Department. "
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" The Soviet Union collapsed without a lot of people thinking it should or would, whereas for Estonia, it was something we'd been praying for for 60 years. "
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" 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. "
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" The domestic policy of any president, U.S. or otherwise, is his or her own concern, as long as democratic norms are followed. "
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" 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. "
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" In cyberwarfare, it is much harder to identify the attacker and, therefore, to know how to retaliate. "
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" Little by little, we're becoming a boring Nordic country. "
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" 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. "
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" Everything can be known and, in some cases, everything is known. "
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" 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. "
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" The whole information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure must be regarded as an 'ecosystem' in which everything is interconnected. It functions as a whole; it must be defended as a whole. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The thing people forget is that the entire world - or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union - that security architecture has been in place since 1945 and has been refined. Already, the U.N. charter that everyone signed is that you can't change borders through use of force or even threat of use of force. "
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" There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition. "
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" That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers. "
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" Diplomacy between a powerful, victorious army and a side that's losing doesn't really work well. "
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