Barton Gellman Quotes

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.

Enigma is really an investment in peace of mind. I keep a lot of confidential information on my laptop. I'm usually very careful about keeping my laptop under close physical control but had an unfortunate lapse and left it on a plane. That could have cost me dearly if not for the Enigma.

I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.

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

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.

If you are going to store your e-wallet on your own server, don't keep your e-wallet on your desktop, and make sure you use encryption. If you lose your computer, your bitcoins are lost forever.

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

The nice thing about Reddit is, we don't have to sell your data or build a profile of you or do stuff that makes people feel uncomfortable.

Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.

For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.

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

The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.

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.

In this era of massive online connectivity, the majority of privacy breaches and data leaks remain unknown, unchallenged, and unregulated. Regulatory compliance alone cannot ensure privacy.

Remember, the Cloud is just someone else's server.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.