Alex Stamos Quotes

In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approximates a 'whisper' is encryption. When I cannot whisper in my wife's ear or the ears of my business partners, and have to communicate electronically, then encryption is our tool to keep our secrets secret.

For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.

We think that providing this kind of secure private means of communication for the masses for 99.999 percent of people that have nothing to do with terrorism means more than the threat that we see from the other side.

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

You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.

Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.

make sure your security is real…make sure your computer is in a private location. E-mails are the tool of the Devil. Use personal contact or a safe phone.

In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like.

I think someone's conversation, whether in e-mail or in person, should be private.

I think anybody who uses email in the center of our life needs encryption.

DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.

You know the interesting thing about encryption is that it cannot be secure just for some people.

The No. 1 reason for me to support and help launch Telegram was to build a means of communication that can't be accessed by the Russian security agencies, so I can talk about it for hours.

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

I don't think you're entitled to read my mail between my daughters and me.

There should be an understanding and trust that your privacy and data will be protected.

I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.

Encryption plays a fundamental role in protecting us all online. It is key to growing the digital economy and delivering public services online. But, like many powerful technologies, encrypted services are used and abused by a small minority of people.

With the growing availability of commoditized encryption, it is becoming easier for common criminals to communicate beyond the reach of traditional surveillance.

In America they started to refer to Telegram as 'ISIS's preferred messaging app,' But in reality there are many more legitimate users.

We believe that when technology providers deploy encryption in their products, services, and platforms they need to maintain an appropriate mechanism for lawful access.

The first thing that we wanted to make clear is that nobody has to trust anybody. We don't take people's trust for Telegram for granted.

While we should not hesitate to deploy encryption to protect ourselves from cybercriminals, this should not be done in a way that eviscerates society's ability to defend itself against other types of criminal threats. In other words, making our virtual world more secure should not come at the expense of making us more vulnerable in the real world.

I think... all of the best public cryptographers in the world would agree that you can't really build back doors in crypto. That it's like drilling a hole in the windshield.