Documents Quote by Edward Snowden

Let's put it this way. The United States government has assembled a massive investigation team into me personally, into my work with the journalists,…

— Edward Snowden

Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically…

— Edward Snowden

I don't need to understand how encryption works to understand how it's helping the criminals.

— Amber Rudd

There are programs such as the NSA paying RSA $10 million to use an insecure encryption standard by default in their products. That's making…

— Edward Snowden

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

— Edward Snowden

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…

— Barton Gellman

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

“Encryption matters, and it is not just for spies and philanderers.”

— Glenn Greenwald

Clipper took a relatively simple problem, encryption between two phones, and turned it into a much more complex problem, encryption between two phones but…

— Matt Blaze

Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard…

— Gene Spafford

In the years preceding my imprisonment, I worked as a software programmer, designing and developing web interfaces, secure databases, and communication software; later, I…

— Chelsea Manning

On balance, the use of encryption, just like the use of good locks on doors, has the net effect of preventing a lot more…

— Matt Blaze