Agency Quote by Edward Snowden

The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority is weakening…

— Edward Snowden

Since Snowden went public, companies such as Apple and Google - two of the world's most valuable companies - have incorporated much greater encryption…

— Peter Bergen

We've already seen shifts happening in some of the big companies - Google, Apple - that now understand how vulnerable their customer data is,…

— Laura Poitras

America is way too quick to trade freedom for the illusion of security. Whether it's allowing the NSA to go way too far in…

— Erik Prince

Weaken American encryption and consumers - both good and bad actors - will simply seek their technology from companies based abroad. Weaker encryption also…

— Ted Lieu

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…

— Tim Cook

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA…

— Michael Gerson

We've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the national surveillance…

— Edward Snowden

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

Companies made these decisions about encryption when they were finding it very difficult to sell their products overseas because the [Edward] Snowden disclosures created…

— Michael Morell

Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard…

— Esther Dyson

The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of…

— Anonymous