Zitat des Tages von Heather Brooke:
I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government.
Hackers often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving.
If any of us were faced with a huge bag of free money and very little accountability, it would be human nature that you would make the most of it.
I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.
The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.
Many of us are under the delusion that the police exist solely to deal with crime and keep us safe. That is to ignore the major focus of many of today's top cops on managing reputation - both of their force and, by default, their careers.
When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.
When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.
Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.
It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.
Newspapers are not free and they never have been. They can appear to be so, but someone, somewhere is covering the costs whether that is through advertising, a patron's largesse or a license fee. Advertising is no longer subsidising the industry and so the cost must fall somewhere - why not on the people who use it?
A lack of government oversight hasn't hindered the Internet. Quite the opposite. A hands-off approach is largely responsible for its fantastic growth and success.
You don't make a system more effective by increasing the number of regulators.
In Britain, it's bred into you, the idea that you can't really change anything, so why bother. When I went to school in America, it was the total opposite view - you, as an individual, can change anything and everything. It's how you're raised.
Slightly embarrassing admission: Even when I was a kid, I used to have these little spy books, and I would, like, see what everybody was doing in my neighborhood and log it down.
Whether I'll get the chance to write fiction, I don't know. I could do political conspiracy thrillers, couldn't I? With an investigative journalist as the heroine.
When it comes to reforming MPs' expenses, the answer is simply to keep it simple: show us receipts as they're claimed and, where there are abuses, enforce the law.
I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks.
The royal family are protected from public accountability by law.
The speed with which WikiLeaks went from niche interest to global prominence was a real-time example of the revolutionizing power of the digital age in which information can spread instantly across the globe through networked individuals.
In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown.
The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.
Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital form, it becomes very easy for them to be shared.
If you don't think there is any value in the work I, or any other serious journalists do, then don't spend your money on it. At least you have the choice.
The way the Establishment deals with people like me is to ignore them. When you become unignorable, they will try to smear you, and that's what I feared for a long time. Now I have somehow vaulted into this space where it's difficult for someone to smear me because it would look as though they were being vindictive and spiteful.
We pay a lot for our court service, but it's not enough. Courts are under-resourced, which leads to delayed justice - particularly in criminal courts.
Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.
I like to write books and cause trouble.
The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people.
I've written for 'The Times' because they have valued what I do enough to pay me. The 'New Statesman' magazine also asked me to write an article, but they didn't want to pay me anything. To me, that shows how much they value quality journalism.
What the interconnected age in which we live allows us to do is instantly connect with each other.
A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber 'warfare.'
There's a temptation not to vote at all as a protest, but it's definitely not a protest. In fact, all it does is keep the people in power in power, and I don't think they should be.
I'm very optimistic, but I'm optimistic about individuals, not institutions.
If you really believe in a cause, let the cause speak for itself. And if you, by your personality, are damaging that cause, if you really believe in it, you step aside.