Ability Quote by Bobby Ray Inman

The threat is that the public will know what the government is up to. Any system of power is going to want to keep…

— Noam Chomsky

The stakes in the encryption debate are high, with significant consequences for personal privacy, the U.S. private sector, and our national security.

— Ted Lieu

Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own…

— Bob Schieffer

Security will produce danger.

— Samuel Johnson

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it.…

— Rachel Maddow

There are certainly some secrets the government needs to protect, but many of the most important clues about revolutions, nuclear transfers, and new military…

— David E. Sanger

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

— Whitfield Diffie

“Government surveillance is a blatant violation of our fundamental right to privacy, an intrusion into the sacred space where personal thoughts and actions unfold.…

— James William Steven Parker

“The ability to eavesdrop on people's communications vests immense power in those who do it. And unless such power is held in check by…

— Glenn Greenwald

“knew from my years of writing about NSA abuses that it can be hard to generate serious concern about secret state surveillance: invasion of…

— Glenn Greenwald

The consequences of leaking sensitive information is that Americans and coalition forces die, and we lose trust with foreign spies, and our national security…

— Brandon Webb

“The lesson for me was clear: national security officials do not like the light. They act abusively and thuggishly only when they believe they…

— Glenn Greenwald