Jimmy Wales Quotes

There are security risks not only from information falling into the wrong hands, but also from information failing to find its way into the right hands. The government’s current approach to protecting classified information does not recognize this risk from failing to share

We know there are lots of leaks everywhere. There's nothing we can do about that, except not leak ourselves.

I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election.

I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.

WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire U.S. government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

I'm not affiliated with either Wikileaks or Anonymous - of course, it's not like I would tell you anyway if I were because the whole point is to be anonymous.

No one really knows how many [SBU] records are covered or for how long, and there are practically none of the limits that we do have in the security classification world.

Now that you have the Xerox machine, you can't keep many secrets.

Public disclosure is one of the great disinfectants ever invented.

As much as possible, you simply don't give out information to the public, that is the first principle.

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

… in the modern world, in which any tom‐dick‐or‐harry has ready access to the Internet, the professional press is no longer a necessary intermediary for leakers.

Some things simply cannot leak. And if they do leak, the government has to do something about it.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.

Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.

WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions.

It's a day-one expectation that when you buy a processor, it's not going to leak your data.

Where protection of certain sensitive information is well-founded, I remain committed to upholding the laws and longstanding policies governing classification and public release.

Our view is that sensitive, contractual, market-moving, private data should be kept private.

WikiLeaks is a important focus of our attention.

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.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.