Louis D. Brandeis Quotes

Our focus remains on delivering the promise of WhatsApp far and wide so that people around the world have the freedom to speak their mind without fear.

Everybody spies on everybody.

Encryption and anonymity, separately or together, create a zone of privacy to protect opinion and belief. For instance, they enable private communications and can shield an opinion from outside scrutiny, particularly important in hostile political, social, religious and legal environments.

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.

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.

One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.

I'm a strong believer in strong encryption.

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

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.

Privacy matters. Privacy allows us to determine who we are and what we want to be.

Where States impose unlawful censorship through filtering and other technologies, the use of encryption and anonymity may empower individuals to circumvent barriers and access information and ideas without the intrusion of authorities. Journalists, researchers, lawyers and civil society rely on encryption and anonymity to shield themselves (and their sources, clients and partners) from surveillance and harassment. The ability to search the web, develop ideas and communicate securely may be the only way in which many can explore basic aspects of identity, such as one’s gender, religion, ethnicity, national origin or sexuality.

Some call for efforts to weaken or compromise encryption standards such that only Governments may enjoy access to encrypted communications. However, compromised encryption cannot be kept secret from those with the skill to find and exploit the weak points, whether State or non-State, legitimate or criminal. It is a seemingly universal position among technologists that there is no special access that can be made available only to government authorities, even ones that, in principle, have the public interest in mind. In the contemporary technological environment, intentionally compromising encryption, even for arguably legitimate purposes, weakens everyone’s security online.

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

Privacy is paradise.

In terms of security and privacy, what people care about the most is the privacy of their messages.

Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!

When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

We do everything we can, obviously, to keep as private a life as possible.

You can't manage a secret.

I won't even let anyone in my house. I'm a private person.

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.

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.

I think relationships are the one area you should keep private, because there's nothing worse than people talking about them.

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