John Poindexter Quotes

Privacy and security are the ultimate shared responsibility, and everyone - including governments, companies, and citizens - have an important role to play.

We all love privacy. We all care about public safety. And none of - at least people that I hang around with, none of us want back doors. We don't want access to devices built-in in some way.

We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.

There used to be technological limitations … that provided a measure of privacy for Americans. Now with essentially no technological limitations—the technology can practically do anything—the only way to strike the appropriate balance between liberty and security is to embed that balance in the law.

Online censorship, mass and targeted surveillance and data collection, digital attacks on civil society and repression resulting from online expression force individuals around the world to seek security to hold opinions without interference and seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds. Many seek to protect their security through encryption, the scrambling of data so only intended recipients may access it

I love strong encryption. It protects us in so many ways from bad people. But it takes us to a place - absolute privacy - that we have not been to before.

I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I'm willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero. My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I'm not the only person that thinks that.

I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.

If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

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

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

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

The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.

People are just beginning to learn how much their own personal privacy is being invaded and that they’re losing control over their own information.

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.

People have a right to privacy, but they also have a right to live. Fundamentally, we need cybersecurity and need to secure communications as well.

Our government should not be spying on the electronic communications of American citizens. Nor should our iPhones or Android devices be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures.

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.

I advocate for protecting the liberty of the net, and securing privacy. I argue against people who believe both are somehow given automatically. They're not.

You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

The decisions we make about communication security today will determine the kind of society we live in tomorrow.