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" 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. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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" 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. "

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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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" Democracy is messy, clearly, but it has one key factor, which is an orderly transfer of power. "

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

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I was the child of refugees. "

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" 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. "

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" In Russia, tweeting or sharing real news that's embarrassing to the regime can land you in prison. Imagine, then, the response of the regime to 'fake news' that's damaging to the Kremlin. "

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" Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance. "

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" Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns. "

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

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" There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition. "

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" It's much cheaper to influence elections than it is to go to war. "

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" 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? "

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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" The rights that people have offline must also be protected online. "

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" Nothing costs more than the loss of freedom. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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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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" We Estonians will do what is necessary to join the European Union. "

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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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