Encryption Quotes

• There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

  Bruce Schneier

  Sister, Reading, Government

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• Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

  Esther Dyson

  Running, Powerful, Thinking

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• Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Strong

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• The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Strong, Communication, Data

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• We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

  Edward Snowden

  Art, Thinking, Nsa

  "Snowden at SXSW: 'The Constitution was being violated on a massive scale'". www.rt.com. March 10, 2014.

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• I'm a strong believer in strong encryption.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Nsa, Believer

  "President Obama: I'm A Big Believer In Strong Encryption... But". Interview with Kara Swisher, www.techdirt.com. February 13, 2015.

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• On balance, the use of encryption, just like the use of good locks on doors, has the net effect of preventing a lot more crime than it might assist.

  Matt Blaze

  Doors, Balance, Locks

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Without encryption, you and I wouldn't be able to do our banking online. We wouldn't be able to buy things online, because your credit cards - they've probably been ripped off anyway, but they would be ripped off left and right every day if there wasn't encryption.

  Tim Cook

  Would Be, Cards, Banking

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

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• Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Strong, People

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• Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on.

  Edward Snowden

  Strong, Rely

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". The Guardian Newspaper Online Chat, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• It may be true that encryption makes certain investigations of crime more difficult. It can close down certain investigative techniques or make it harder to get access to certain kinds of electronic evidence. But it also prevents crime by making our computers, our infrastructure, our medical records, our financial records, more robust against criminals. It prevents crime.

  Matt Blaze

  Technique, Criminals, Records

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We have to solve the encryption problem. It is not easy.

  John Kasich

  Problem, Easy, Solve

  John Kasich's remarks during the CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Second Debate at the Venetian Las Vegas hosted by Wolf Blitzer, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• One of the things that I think is true is that encryption actually is able to secure our communications, that every individual can use encryption, and that it's accessible and in many cases free.

  Laura Poitras

  Communication, Thinking, Use

  "Laura Poitras Talks CITIZENFOUR, Her First Impression of Edward Snowden, Her Commitment to Fearless Adversarial Journalism and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 26, 2014.

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• Anyway, it's not true that the authorities cannot access the content of the phone even if there is no back door. When I was at the NSA, we did this every single day, even on Sundays. I believe that encryption is a civic responsibility, a civic duty.

  Edward Snowden

  Believe, Responsibility, Sunday

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.

  Gene Spafford

  Car, Credit, Benches

  "Rants & Raves", www.wired.com. November 25, 2002.

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• A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Money, Technology, Safety

  "A convicted hacker debunks some myths". Interview with Manav Tanneeru, www.cnn.com. October 13, 2005.

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• The new iPhone has encryption that protects the contents of the phone. This means if someone steals your phone - if a hacker or something images your phone - they can't read what's on the phone itself, they can't look at your pictures, they can't see the text messages you send, and so forth. But it does not stop law enforcement from tracking your movements via geolocation on the phone if they think you are involved in a kidnapping case, for example.

  Edward Snowden

  Mean, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Ideas, Stills

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• Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.

  Edward Snowden

  Strong, Nsa, Way

  Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• The government can now delve into personal and private records of individuals even if they cannot be directly connected to a terrorist or foreign government. Bank records, e-mails, library records, even the track of discount cards at grocery stores can be obtained on individuals without establishing any connection to a terrorist before a judge. According to the Los Angeles Times, Al Qaeda uses sophisticated encryption devices freely available on the Internet that cannot be cracked. So the terrorists are safe from cyber-snooping, but we're not.

  Molly Ivins

  Government, Judging, Track

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• I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I'm willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero. My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I'm not the only person that thinks that.

  Tim Cook

  Zero, Giving Up, Believe

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 10, 2016.

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• Clipper took a relatively simple problem, encryption between two phones, and turned it into a much more complex problem, encryption between two phones but that can be decrypted by the government under certain conditions and, by making the problem that complicated, that made it very easy for subtle flaws to slip by unnoticed. I think it demonstrated that this problem is not just a tough public policy problem, but it's also a tough technical problem.

  Matt Blaze

  Simple, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.politico.com

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• There is a concern that the Internet could be used to commit crimes and that advanced encryption could disguise such activity. However, we do not provide the government with phone jacks outside our homes for unlimited wiretaps. Why, then, should we grant government the Orwellian capability to listen at will and in real time to our communications across the Web?

  John Ashcroft

  Real, Communication, Home

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• Companies made these decisions about encryption when they were finding it very difficult to sell their products overseas because the [Edward] Snowden disclosures created the impression that the U.S. government was inside this hardware and software produced by them. They needed to do something to deal with the perception.

  Michael Morell

  Government, Decision, Perception

  Source: www.politico.com

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• What encryption lets us do is say, "Yes, the Internet is insecure." Bad guys are able to compromise computers everywhere, but we're able to tolerate that because if they do intercept our messages, they can't do any harm with it.

  Matt Blaze

  Insecure, Guy, Able

  Source: www.politico.com

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