American government Quote by Evgeny Morozov

If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to…

— Adam Cohen

It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so…

— Adam Cohen

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

“Among other devices, the agency intercepts and tampers with routers and servers manufactured by Cisco to direct large amounts of Internet traffic back to…

— Glenn Greenwald

We now expect Google, Facebook, Twitter and other companies to police the Internet for dangerous and illegal material - violent, terrorist, criminal - and…

— Anne Applebaum

The FBI is not in the habit of leaving loose ends. That's not what they do.

— Asha Rangappa

Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.

— Evgeny Morozov

We are moving into a world of unaccountable and secretive corporations that manage all our communications and work hand in hand with governments to…

— Rebecca Solnit

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 FBI's mission is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution. To carry out that mission, we're entrusted with a lot of…

— Christopher A. Wray

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make…

— John Ashcroft

In 2010, you have roughly 38 billion dollars spent by government on cyber and telecoms security and another 60 billion or so by private…

— Misha Glenny