David Ignatius Quotes

I've got nothing to hide.

I hope they don't reveal everything they know about me.

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

I have nothing to hide!

Would the world be any more dangerous if we did without secrets all together.

A government that spies on people to find out what they are thinking is a government that isn’t listing to them.

It’s important to recognize that you can’t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

If we give up all our privacy rights, have we become any safer?

If we take away all our privacy rights, we become our own terrorists.

Privacy violations should be considered criminal offences.

So far, we have a perfect record of WikiLeaks having never revealed information that exposed a source over 10 years.

If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.

Your biggest threat is the person who knows the most about you.

I don't have any secrets; I don't believe in secrets.

Accessibility and openness are good politics but bad security.

Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.

If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.

The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo [Google CEO] Eric Schmidt's view that privacy is for people who have something to hide. But none of them would willingly give me the passwords to their email accounts, or allow video cameras in their homes.

Privacy is rarely lost in one fell swoop. It is usually eroded over time, little bits dissolving almost imperceptibly until we finally begin to notice how much is gone.

The [Edward] Snowden disclosures created this perception that people's privacy was being put at significant risk.

You can't buy your privacy back. Because I was already doing OK, and to have this abstract amount of money now, I cannot buy my privacy back.

If the leaks continue, we are strong as our weakest link. And I'll say it a little differently in a pun. We're strong as our weakest leak.