Evgeny Morozov Quotes

Mobile phones are one of the most insecure devices that were ever available, so they're very easy to trace; they're very easy to tap.

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.

Really, what the government is asking Apple to do is to make every individual who uses an iPhone susceptible to hacking by bad people, foreign governments, and anyone who wants.

I worked for GCHQ, which stands for Government Communications Headquarters, and is the equivalent of the NSA here in the U.S.

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.

Making things open-source brings the cost down.

The Internet browser is the most susceptible to viruses. The browser is naive about downloading and executing software. Google is trying to help by releasing the Chrome browser as open source.

In the early 1980s, I wrote a book called 'The Complete Guide to Financial Privacy.' If I would write that book today, it would be a pamphlet. There is precious little privacy left.

Governments are scared of software.

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

A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive.

QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.

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

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.

Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

I think a lot of stuff like people's emails getting hacked or that an email you sent is stored on a hard drive somewhere, that kind of stuff worries me a little bit. It's a weird thought that someone else could get into my information that easily. That stuff's pretty scary.

The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we have ideas, that a system exists because of ethical ideals, which were omitted from ideas associated with the term 'open source.'

Snowden was extremely good at digital self-defense. When he was employed by the C.I.A. and N.S.A., one of his jobs was to teach U.S. national security officials and C.I.A. employees how to protect their data in high-threat digital environments.

There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.