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> [I think it's interesting because the 1990s ended with the government pretty much giving up. There was a recognition that encryption was important. In 2000, the government considerably loosened the export controls on encryption technology and really went about actively…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-blaze/i-think-it-s-interesting-because-the-1990s-ended-with-the-government/)

[Matt Blaze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-blaze/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/755/matt-blaze-25706_discouraging_i-think-it-s-interesting-because-the-199_192776.jpg)

> [If we try to prohibit encryption or discourage it or make it more difficult to use, we're going to suffer the consequences that will be far reaching and very difficult to reverse, and we seem to have realized that in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-blaze/if-we-try-to-prohibit-encryption-or-discourage-it-or-make-it-more/)

[Matt Blaze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-blaze/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c7/matt-blaze-25706_consequence_if-we-try-to-prohibit-encryption-or-disc_2911800.jpg)

## Other authors on Discouraging

## More by Matt Blaze

> [Clipper took a relatively simple problem, encryption between two phones, and turned it into a much more complex problem, encryption between two phones but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-blaze/clipper-took-a-relatively-simple-problem-encryption-between-two/)

[Matt Blaze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-blaze/)

> [I think it's interesting because the 1990s ended with the government pretty much giving up. There was a recognition that encryption was important. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-blaze/i-think-it-s-interesting-because-the-1990s-ended-with-the-government/)

[Matt Blaze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-blaze/)

> [I believed then, and continue to believe now, that the benefits to our security and freedom of widely available cryptography far, far outweigh the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-blaze/i-believed-then-and-continue-to-believe-now-that-the-benefits-to-our/)

[Matt Blaze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-blaze/)

> [On balance, the use of encryption, just like the use of good locks on doors, has the net effect of preventing a lot more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-blaze/on-balance-the-use-of-encryption-just-like-the-use-of-good-locks-on/)

[Matt Blaze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-blaze/)

> [So, in 1993, in what was probably the first salvo of the first Crypto War, there was concern coming from the National Security Agency…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-blaze/so-in-1993-in-what-was-probably-the-first-salvo-of-the-first-crypto/)

[Matt Blaze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-blaze/)

> [As the local police department might want to decrypt a phone of a criminal suspect, so would the Chinese or the Russian or the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-blaze/as-the-local-police-department-might-want-to-decrypt-a-phone-of-a/)

[Matt Blaze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-blaze/)

> [In order for any smartphone manufacturer to decrypt the data on your phone, it has to hold onto a secret that lets it get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-blaze/in-order-for-any-smartphone-manufacturer-to-decrypt-the-data-on-your/)

[Matt Blaze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-blaze/)

> [The security of computers and the Internet is a horrible and dangerous mess. Every week we hear about breaches of databases of Social Security…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-blaze/the-security-of-computers-and-the-internet-is-a-horrible-and/)

[Matt Blaze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-blaze/)

> [ From a policymaker's point of view, \[the back door\] must look like a perfect solution. "We'll hold onto a separate copy of the keys,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-blaze/from-a-policymaker-s-point-of-view-the-back-door-must-look-like-a/)

[Matt Blaze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-blaze/)

> [There's been a certain amount of opportunism in the wake of the Paris attacks in 2015, when there was almost a reflexive assumption that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-blaze/there-s-been-a-certain-amount-of-opportunism-in-the-wake-of-the-paris/)

[Matt Blaze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-blaze/)

> [Telephone handsets are particularly in need of built-in security. We have almost every aspect of our personal and work lives reflected on them and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-blaze/telephone-handsets-are-particularly-in-need-of-built-in-security-we/)

[Matt Blaze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-blaze/)

> [If it were possible to hold onto this sort of database and really be assured that only good guys get access to it, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-blaze/if-it-were-possible-to-hold-onto-this-sort-of-database-and-really-be/)

[Matt Blaze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-blaze/)

> [As we build systems that are more and more complex, we make more and more subtle but very high-impact mistakes. As we use computers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-blaze/as-we-build-systems-that-are-more-and-more-complex-we-make-more-and/)

[Matt Blaze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-blaze/)

> [Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-blaze/computer-science-doesn-t-know-how-to-build-complex-systems-that-work/)

[Matt Blaze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-blaze/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-blaze/what-encryption-lets-us-do-is-say-yes-the-internet-is-insecure-bad/)

[Matt Blaze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-blaze/)

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