Barton Gellman Quotes

The idea that you can be totally anonymous in the digital age is increasingly hard to execute.

This is not a case about one isolated iPhone. Rather, this case is about the Department of Justice and the FBI seeking through the courts a dangerous power that Congress and the American people have withheld: the ability to force companies like Apple to undermine the basic security and privacy interests of hundreds of millions of individuals around the globe. The government demands that Apple create a back door to defeat the encryption on the iPhone, making its user’s most confidential and personal information vulnerable to hackers, identify thieves, hostile foreign agents, and unwarranted government surveillance.

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.

Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.

It's sad that people will invade someone's privacy - and this is not only regarding someone's private photos - but this goes deep into people's financial privacy, their passwords, their emails, their text messages.

User-controlled default encryption is a real challenge for law enforcement.

I don't need to understand how encryption works to understand how it's helping the criminals.

Requiring companies to weaken devices with 'back doors' means we open up innocent Americans to the bad actors who would love easier access to our citizens' personal information.

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

Whether greater cybersecurity requires a greater sacrifice of our digital freedoms is an important debate that we should be having, preferably with all the facts in front of us.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

We are all victims of data mining…. We are in a data mining culture…. Americans do not place a high value on the privacy of their communications and will give up that right for modest benefit.

In cyberspace, once privacy is breached, it may be breached worldwide. Free speech is not restricted to a street-corner audience, a locker room, or a limited-circulation publication, but travels the world.

You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

You can have Google or you can have privacy but you can’t have both.

If you are an American, you can understand why people cannot go through your house and go through your files. By the same token, should they be able to go through them electronically?

Many of our customers have serious concerns about government surveillance of the Internet. We share their concerns.

People voluntarily surrender personal and seemingly private information to trans-national corporations which exploit that data for profit. Few think twice about it.

In this era of massive online connectivity, the majority of privacy breaches and data leaks remain unknown, unchallenged, and unregulated. Regulatory compliance alone cannot ensure privacy.