Donald Knuth Quotes

Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is much more. Computer security helps ensure that your computers, networks, and peripherals work as expected all the time, and that your data is safe in the event of hard disk crash or a power failure resulting from an electrical storm. Computer security also makes sure no damage is done to your data and that no one is able to read it unless you want them to.

In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'

When we share our personal data with business, its use should be transparent and secure.

It is very important, to have a robust digital economy, that the citizens regain the trust in how their data are being processed and who can access them.

We all want safe, secure, private data, but we also want safe and secure communities. And we can have both. I really do believe that.

If someone stole your keys to encrypt the data, it didn't matter how secure the algorithms were.

We should be careful not to vilify encryption itself, which is essential for privacy, data security, and global commerce.

We share no data with the government anywhere in the world.

We don't sell data; we don't allow anyone to sell data.

The problem of end-to-end encryption isn't just a terrorism issue.

It's very hard to keep an uncrackable encryption if you share it with the government.

I trust and use RakEM for my private messages and calls. Other messengers collected metadata about who I messaged, when and where - RakEM does not collect metadata, encrypts local files, and uses the strongest end-to-end encryption around.

If we start - premise that the information is mine, and we give the individual's rights, we worry about what happens during a breach. If you try to protect access to it, as opposed to not even making it available, you have less to worry about who will break the wall.

Data is valuable, so let's be mindful of how we're sharing it.

Americans have a right to the security of their personal information, and the entities that hold personal information have a responsibility to protect it.

Hopefully, people will look at our stance on privacy in general and know that we're not trying to operate outside of a fairly distinct line that we're drawing. I hope that people trust us to do the right thing there.

Businesses that make consumer privacy a point of competitive differentiation will enjoy greater customer loyalty.

I think over time more people will become more aware of how vulnerable their data is.

While encryption protects against cyberattacks, deploying it in warrant-proof form jeopardizes public safety more generally.

We take privacy very seriously and have privacy a policy and our intention is never to sell any customer data.

We take the privacy of our consumers' information as one of the most trusted things that people look to Paypal for, because when it comes to financial services, the single most important brand attribute you can have is trust.

It is a fiction to imagine that the haphazard paper chits of old are more private than the modern digital alternative. Paper records have always presented a security risk.

With original cryptography, you are just trying to secure one narrow thing - say, communications - and you are trying to secure it from a third party. But you can't secure it from the party you are talking to if they forward your email; it doesn't matter how well your email is encrypted.

I voted in support of H.R. 5192, which seeks to curb identity fraud by requiring the Social Security Administration (SSA) to develop a database that financial institutions can use to compare their consumer data against SSA records.

We all have legitimate concerns over the way our personal data is used and stored and it is right that there are protections to stop the theft and manipulation of our private information.