Cory Doctorow Quotes

Telegram is heavily encrypted and privacy-oriented, but we're no friends of terrorists - in fact, every month we block thousands of ISIS-related public channels.

I like to keep certain stuff to myself just because I feel like technology is taking over people's lives.

Freedom was the price of privacy.

I think that we have to have the ability to decide what we share and what we don't.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.

Technology is only an enabler, which can help achieve the intention of the person who is using it.

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

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

The Internet has the capacity to extend to us genuine choice, and that is not without risk. Real power does entail real responsibility.

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

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

Whether greater cybersecurity requires a greater sacrifice of our digital freedoms is an important debate that we should be having, preferably with all the facts in front of us.

When you think about things like power efficiency or performance or Internet connectivity as major technology areas where you have multiple investments, multiple products - security is like that.

The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.

If you don't treat [computer and Internet] security like a religious fanatic, you are going to be hurt like you can't imagine.

Now the power is in your hands!

Police states cannot endure under the advance of the computer because it increases the power of the people far faster than the powers of surveillance.

To whom you tell your secrets, to him you resign your liberty

He who keeps his own counsel keeps his affairs in his own hands.