William Barr Quotes

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.

Efforts to constrain encryption through forms of extraordinary access will inevitably introduce vulnerabilities into the security of consumer products in ways that are likely to have adverse long-term effects on the security, privacy, and civil liberties of citizens.

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

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

First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

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

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

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.

We can find no successful terrorist attack that would have been prevented by the availability of a lawful decryption access technology ...

The encryption genie is out of the bottle.

I don't need to understand how encryption works to understand how it's helping the criminals.

I think... all of the best public cryptographers in the world would agree that you can't really build back doors in crypto. That it's like drilling a hole in the windshield.

It is clear to me that creating a pathway for decryption only for good guys is technologically stupid. You just can't do that.

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.

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

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.

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.

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.

Online censorship, mass and targeted surveillance and data collection, digital attacks on civil society and repression resulting from online expression force individuals around the world to seek security to hold opinions without interference and seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds. Many seek to protect their security through encryption, the scrambling of data so only intended recipients may access it

The spread of strong consumer encryption technology around the globe is inevitable;

Apple and Google want to create encryption for which they could not provide you the key. Their business model will not survive if the American government has a special relationship with them that requires them to surrender this kind of information.

I love strong encryption. It protects us in so many ways from bad people. But it takes us to a place - absolute privacy - that we have not been to before.

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

People have a right to privacy, but they also have a right to live. Fundamentally, we need cybersecurity and need to secure communications as well.