John Poindexter Quotes
- I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.
- You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.
- TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.
- I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the…
- Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government…
- I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because…
- We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.
- I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
- It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.
- Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total…
- One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community…
- The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all…