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" The rights that people have offline must also be protected online. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Rights
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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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" 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.' "
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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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" 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.' "
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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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" 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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" 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 was the child of refugees. "
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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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Country
Technology
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" People who come out of the liberal arts don't have an understanding of science and technology, and the people in science and technology have very little experience with liberal arts and the traditions of a liberal democracy. "
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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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Legal
News
Nationalism
" 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. "
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Power
Technology
Innovation
" When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here. "
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Our
Abroad
Surprised
" 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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Work
Young
Computers
" Brits, Scandinavians, Finns, Estonians consider themselves rational, logical, unencumbered by emotional arguments; we are businesslike, stubborn, and hard-working. "
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Rational
Stubborn
Emotional
" Russia has had very aggressive military exercises. They've practiced mock nuclear attacks on Warsaw. Russian bombers practiced attacking strategic military targets in Sweden. The military aggression gets everybody nervous. "
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Aggression
Military
Russia
" We Estonians will do what is necessary to join the European Union. "
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Will
Join
European Union
" 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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Believe
Own
Desire
" Cybersecurity needs to be taken seriously by everyone. "
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Taken
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" When your country is in dire straits, it doesn't matter whether you're a social democrat or not. "
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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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" Diplomacy between a powerful, victorious army and a side that's losing doesn't really work well. "
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" 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. "
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" Big data knows and can deduce more about you than Big Brother ever could. "
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" It's much cheaper to influence elections than it is to go to war. "
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Go
" 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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Age
Living
" Nothing costs more than the loss of freedom. "
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Nothing
More
Loss
" 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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Face
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