Gene Spafford Quotes

QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.

As we all become increasingly reliant on social networking websites and new technologies to stay connected, it's important to remain cognizant of how private personal information and data is handled.

When documents were analog, they were protected by government laws against unreasonable search and seizure. When they live in the cloud... the ground is shifting.

I love a hotel that offers Wi-Fi Internet access, especially if it's free. But I never access sensitive information, like my bank account or an online shopping site that stores my credit card information, on a public Wi-Fi connection.

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.

The encryption genie is out of the bottle.

There should be an understanding and trust that your privacy and data will be protected.

If you log onto this (Cars.gov) at your home, everything in your home is now theirs.

Users are innocent for they can not really make sure if their information is safe or not.

Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.

Without encryption, you and I wouldn't be able to do our banking online. We wouldn't be able to buy things online, because your credit cards - they've probably been ripped off anyway, but they would be ripped off left and right every day if there wasn't encryption.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

It's high time for a fresh European alternative to enter the market, taking the existing Internet behemoths head on. What the world needs now is a cloud storage service that is not subject to uncontrolled access by intelligence agencies.

You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.

For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

When I think about privacy on social media sites, there's kind of the usual suspect problems, which doesn't make them any less important or severe; it's just we kind of know their shape, and we kind of know how we're going to solve them.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks.

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

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

People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.