Bruce Schneier Quotes

Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people.

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

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

The encryption genie is out of the bottle.

We are moving to a world where all content is encrypted all the time.

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

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.

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

We should be careful not to vilify encryption itself, which is essential for privacy, data security, and global commerce.

The problem of end-to-end encryption isn't just a terrorism issue.

It's very hard to keep an uncrackable encryption if you share it with the government.

All too often, vital electronic evidence has been made unavailable through encryption that doesn't allow for execution of legal process including court-approved search warrants.

Strong encryption enables commerce and protects us online.

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.

By leaning on companies, by leaning on infrastructure providers, by leaning on researchers, graduate students, post-docs, even undergrads, to look at the challenges having an untrusted internet, where we have to put our communications on wires that are owned by a phone company that we can't trust, that's working in collaboration with a government that we can't trust, in areas around the world, we can restructure that communications fabric in a way that it's encrypted.

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.

In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

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.

I don't like showing my privacy online.

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.

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.

This is not a case about one isolated iPhone. Rather, this case is about the Department of Justice and the FBI seeking through the courts a dangerous power that Congress and the American people have withheld: the ability to force companies like Apple to undermine the basic security and privacy interests of hundreds of millions of individuals around the globe. The government demands that Apple create a back door to defeat the encryption on the iPhone, making its user’s most confidential and personal information vulnerable to hackers, identify thieves, hostile foreign agents, and unwarranted government surveillance.