Top 75 Quotes by Heather Brooke

I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more flexible attitude.

In whose interest is it to hype up the collapse of the Internet from a DDoS attack? Why, the people who provide cyber security services, of course.

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people.

Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social status, and where ideas and knowledge hold primary value.

You don't make a system more effective by increasing the number of regulators.

I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks.

Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too.