Tim Cook Quotes

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

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

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

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.

The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.

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.

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.

On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.

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

We should be careful not to vilify encryption itself, which is essential for privacy, data security, and global commerce.

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.

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

User-controlled default encryption is a real challenge for law enforcement.

I will say that one of the things that hackers, of all shapes and sizes, prize the most in this world is anonymity and stealth and deniability. And by indicting them publicly, among other things, we strip them of that.

Strong encryption enables commerce and protects us online.

More organizations than ever are conducting business online. An expanding digital footprint and increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks have created a growing urgency to secure that data and the resources organizations are deploying.

Weaken American encryption and consumers - both good and bad actors - will simply seek their technology from companies based abroad. Weaker encryption also means weaker national security.

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

As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.

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

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.

As all of our lives become digital, the logic of encryption is all of our lives will be covered by strong encryption, and therefore all of our lives - including the lives of criminals and terrorists and spies - will be in a place that is utterly unavailable to court-ordered process. And that, I think, to a democracy should be very, very concerning.

'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'