Back Quote by Evgeny Morozov

The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what…

— Evgeny Morozov

I talk to cryptographers, some of the leading technologists in the world, all the time about how we can deal with these issues. It…

— Edward Snowden

You know, yes, you can always argue that a backdoor can be built that's more secure, you know, and more difficult to get to…

— Rod Beckstrom

We're not all on the same page here. So most of us in the technology community are opposed to what we call backdoors that…

— Rod Beckstrom

The government does things like insisting that all encryption programs should have a back door. But surely no one is stupid enough to think…

— Kevin Mitnick

It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans.

— Mikko Hypponen

I think... all of the best public cryptographers in the world would agree that you can't really build back doors in crypto. That it's…

— Alex Stamos

We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That's…

— Ronald Reagan

I don't welcome leaks. There's a reason why these programs are classified.

— Barack Obama

Look, if I were running the FBI, you know, I probably would want to have backdoors as well, so I'm sympathetic to the director's…

— Rod Beckstrom

If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.

— Gavin Newsom

It's simply unrealistic to depend on secrecy for security in computer software. You may be able to keep the exact workings of the program…

— Whitfield Diffie