Tim Cook Quotes

One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.

Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.

Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be

The encryption genie is out of the bottle.

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 to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works

Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on.

I'm a strong believer in strong encryption.

Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people.

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

I think that the people who are trying to shut down WikiLeaks are going to have to accept this as a fact of reality that cryptography allows you to do this kind of thing.

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.

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.

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 and the water.

Since Snowden went public, companies such as Apple and Google - two of the world's most valuable companies - have incorporated much greater encryption into their products and have also been at pains to show that they will not go along with U.S. government demands to access their encrypted products.

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

We are moving to a world where all content is encrypted all the time.

I think that in an age where so much information is flying through cyberspace, we all have to be aware of the fact that some information which is sensitive, which does affect the security of individuals and relationships, deserves to be protected and we will continue to take necessary steps to do so.

The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper: paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you really want to keep something secret, don't write it down.

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks.

In a sense, communications networks can be defined entirely by who has cryptographic keys, and I think a lot of networks will work that way in the future.