Consequence 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

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

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

The reality is that if you - let's say you just pulled encryption. Let's ban it. Let's you and I ban it tomorrow. And…

— Tim Cook

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

I think it's interesting because the 1990s ended with the government pretty much giving up. There was a recognition that encryption was important. In…

— Matt Blaze

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

Encryption would help prevent a lot of cyber attacks.

— Ted Lieu

What encryption lets us do is say, "Yes, the Internet is insecure." Bad guys are able to compromise computers everywhere, but we're able to…

— 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

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

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