Words matter. These are the best Encryption Quotes from famous people such as John McAfee, Pavel Durov, Ted Lieu, David Ignatius, Dorothy Denning, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s very hard to keep an uncrackable encryption if you share it with the government.
The political solutions proposed against encryption are not going to work against terrorism.
Weaken American encryption and consumers – both good and bad actors – will simply seek their technology from companies based abroad. Weaker encryption also means weaker national security.
Apple chief executive Tim Cook is such a respected figure that it’s easy to overlook the basic problem with his argument about encryption: Cook is asserting that a private company and the interests of its customers should prevail over the public’s interest as expressed by our courts.
Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.
There is an unarguable downside to unbreakable encryption.
Apple and Google want to create encryption for which they could not provide you the key. Their business model will not survive if the American government has a special relationship with them that requires them to surrender this kind of information.
In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approximates a ‘whisper’ is encryption. When I cannot whisper in my wife’s ear or the ears of my business partners, and have to communicate electronically, then encryption is our tool to keep our secrets secret.
We believe that when technology providers deploy encryption in their products, services, and platforms they need to maintain an appropriate mechanism for lawful access.
Before even getting to David Cameron’s father here’s a starting-point question about the Panama Papers: how is the desire to break the anonymity of Panama banking secrecy different from the FBI’s interest in breaking Apple’s encryption of the iPhone?
You know the interesting thing about encryption is that it cannot be secure just for some people.
Encryption plays a fundamental role in protecting us all online. It is key to growing the digital economy and delivering public services online. But, like many powerful technologies, encrypted services are used and abused by a small minority of people.
If you are going to store your e-wallet on your own server, don’t keep your e-wallet on your desktop, and make sure you use encryption. If you lose your computer, your bitcoins are lost forever.
Strong encryption enables commerce and protects us online.
In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like.
Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it’s money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information.
The arc of technology is in the direction of unbreakable encryption, and no laws are going to get in the way of that reality.
The encryption genie is out of the bottle.
Attempts to restrict encryption at the state or local levels would only serve to undermine security and economic competitiveness for the entire nation.
I love strong encryption. It protects us in so many ways from bad people. But it takes us to a place – absolute privacy – that we have not been to before.
All too often, vital electronic evidence has been made unavailable through encryption that doesn’t allow for execution of legal process including court-approved search warrants.
Privacy and encryption work, but it’s too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.
The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the authority to regulate interstate commerce, and the ENCRYPT Act sends a clear message that the complicated issues with encryption must be addressed thoughtfully and nationally.
You don’t need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you’re vulnerable.
We think the government should be pushing for more encryption. That it’s a great thing. You know, it’s like the sun and the air and the water.
I trust and use RakEM for my private messages and calls. Other messengers collected metadata about who I messaged, when and where – RakEM does not collect metadata, encrypts local files, and uses the strongest end-to-end encryption around.
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.
While encryption protects against cyberattacks, deploying it in warrant-proof form jeopardizes public safety more generally.
I am not convinced that lack of encryption is the primary problem. The problem with the Internet is that it is meant for communications among non-friends.
With the growing availability of commoditized encryption, it is becoming easier for common criminals to communicate beyond the reach of traditional surveillance.
Trying to explain Turing’s work in encryption and decryption? It’s complicated.
We should be careful not to vilify encryption itself, which is essential for privacy, data security, and global commerce.
I don’t need to understand how encryption works to understand how it’s helping the criminals.
The government does things like insisting that all encryption programs should have a back door. But surely no one is stupid enough to think the terrorists are going to use encryption systems with a back door. The terrorists will simply hire a programmer to come up with a secure encryption scheme.
I think anybody who uses email in the center of our life needs encryption.
Since Snowden went public, companies such as Apple and Google – two of the world’s most valuable companies – have incorporated much greater encryption into their products and have also been at pains to show that they will not go along with U.S. government demands to access their encrypted products.
User-controlled default encryption is a real challenge for law enforcement.
Blockchain technology, or distributed ledger technology, is just a way of using the modern sciences of encryption to enable entities to share a common infrastructure for database retention.
Encryption threatens to lead all of us to a very dark place.
Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people.
Encryption would help prevent a lot of cyber attacks.
Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!
The problem of end-to-end encryption isn’t just a terrorism issue.
I’m 16 now, I was 15 when it happened… and the encryption code wasn’t in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.
