Discouraging Quote by Matt Blaze

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

So, in 1993, in what was probably the first salvo of the first Crypto War, there was concern coming from the National Security Agency…

— Matt Blaze

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

When the September 11th attacks happened, only about a year later, the crypto community was holding its breath because here was a time when…

— Matt Blaze

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

If we try to prohibit encryption or discourage it or make it more difficult to use, we're going to suffer the consequences that will…

— Matt Blaze

It may be true that encryption makes certain investigations of crime more difficult. It can close down certain investigative techniques or make it harder…

— Matt Blaze

Encryption provides enormous benefits to society by enabling secure communications, data storage, and online transactions.

— William Barr

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

There's been a certain amount of opportunism in the wake of the Paris attacks in 2015, when there was almost a reflexive assumption that,…

— Matt Blaze

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

In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like.

— Jan Koum