Edward Snowden Quotes

I'm a strong believer in strong encryption.

Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

I don't own encryption, Apple doesn't own encryption. Encryption, as you know, is everywhere. In fact some of encryption is funded by our government.

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

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

I think that the people who are trying to shut down WikiLeaks are going to have to accept this as a fact of reality that cryptography allows you to do this kind of thing.

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.

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

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

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.

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.

In a sense, communications networks can be defined entirely by who has cryptographic keys, and I think a lot of networks will work that way in the future.

Snowden was extremely good at digital self-defense. When he was employed by the C.I.A. and N.S.A., one of his jobs was to teach U.S. national security officials and C.I.A. employees how to protect their data in high-threat digital environments.

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.

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.

The encryption genie is out of the bottle.

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

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

I think anybody who uses email in the center of our life needs encryption.

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

Cybersecurity is one of my main priorities, as well as the government's, and we are committed to making the U.K. the safest place to live and do business online.