Bipartisan Quote by 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

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

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

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

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

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

I believed then, and continue to believe now, that the benefits to our security and freedom of widely available cryptography far, far outweigh the…

— Matt Blaze

People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down…

— Robert Mueller

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

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

The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to…

— Jon Porter

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