Thomas Powers Quotes

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.

Nothing on paper; paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you want to keep something secret, don't write it down.

Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.

The only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all.

There are some things that should not be leaked without authorization.

Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

I really fight for my privacy.

All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

Our agency (the Central Intelligence Agency) is the last refuge of organizational privacy available to the U. S. Government.

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.

Most importantly I never sent classified material on my email and I never received any that was marked classified.

I was in the CIA for nine years. I am intimately familiar with the information classification system. I used it every day on the job. Like every other one of my colleagues at the agency, I approached the handling of classified information with immense care because I understand the ramifications.

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

The first rule about security is that you never talk about security.

So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.

There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.

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

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

Netflix is very protective with their information .

A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State secret of the greatest importance was printed without being divulged, merely by sending it to the press like any other matter, and trusting to the mechanical habits of the persons employed. They printed it piecemeal in ignorance of what it was about.