William Barr Quotes

We live in a very insecure world with a very insecure communications platform.

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

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.

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

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

You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

This is America. And we've basically invented the computer, and we should invent ways to protect all those that use it.

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

Cybersecurity needs to be taken seriously by everyone.

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.

Encryption plays a fundamental role in protecting us all online. It is key to growing the digital economy and delivering public services online. But, like many powerful technologies, encrypted services are used and abused by a small minority of people.

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.

Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.

I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I'm willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero. My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I'm not the only person that thinks that.

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.

All too often, vital electronic evidence has been made unavailable through encryption that doesn't allow for execution of legal process including court-approved search warrants.

Encryption would help prevent a lot of cyber attacks.

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.

I think the 'Predator' franchise has been great on a number of levels. When it comes to online safety for kids, and adults, I think we've raised awareness and created a dialogue that didn't exist three-and-a-half years ago. Clearly, it has resonated with viewers for a variety of reasons, and I'm attached to it.

There is no world of absolute, complete privacy or a world of complete national security.

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

It's just really important that we have boundaries and guidelines to operate. Our homes, the cars, everything is going to be on the Internet. And so what are the guidelines? What do we want?

In our effort to tackle terrorism, we should look into all possible avenues of cyber-crime, its linkages with the terrorist world, and how these could be dealt with.

I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.