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" Little by little, we're becoming a boring Nordic country. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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" Nothing costs more than the loss of freedom. "

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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. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" 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. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" 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. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" 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.' "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" 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. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" 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

" Brits, Scandinavians, Finns, Estonians consider themselves rational, logical, unencumbered by emotional arguments; we are businesslike, stubborn, and hard-working. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" 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

" Everything can be known and, in some cases, everything is known. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" Because of cyberattacks and fake news, we can already imagine the problem all democratic societies will face in future elections: how to limit lies when they threaten democracy? "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" 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

" 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. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" 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

" 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

" I was the child of refugees. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" 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

" When your country is in dire straits, it doesn't matter whether you're a social democrat or not. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" 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. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" The E-government cabinet, E-health services, online voting, online pre-filled tax returns, e-mobile parking, are all examples of Estonian innovation, but far more importantly, they are examples of the transformative power of intensive and extensive use of Information Technology in the public sector. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" Diplomacy between a powerful, victorious army and a side that's losing doesn't really work well. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" In cyberwarfare, it is much harder to identify the attacker and, therefore, to know how to retaliate. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" 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

" 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

" There was a period in my life when I was very young that I wrote a sonnet a day just to learn concision in writing. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" The first time cyber was even a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference, which is - I mean, we've got hundreds of specialists there - was 2011. That's how long it took. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" 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. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" 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. "

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