Heather Brooke quotes

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.

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.

CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.

The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.

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.

In America, you have the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. You've got drones now being considered for domestic surveillance. You have the National Security Agency building the world's giantest spy center.

When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course. And I just found myself back in journalism again.

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

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.