Digital Security Quotes

I had traveled to Russia and met with Snowden, which was a pretty involved meeting that required encrypted communication and the like. And it was fascinating because of who he is and what he's done. And more so because what's going on between our two countries, Russia and the U.S., and to meet Edward Snowden in Russia was unforgettable.

As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered.

We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that it is digital and easy to transmit exacerbates that. I don't know that we know yet what social norms we wish to adopt.

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.

There used to be technological limitations … that provided a measure of privacy for Americans. Now with essentially no technological limitations—the technology can practically do anything—the only way to strike the appropriate balance between liberty and security is to embed that balance in the law.

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

As we work to secure our data and communications from hackers, we must recognize that our citizens face a far broader array of threats.

Digital India is about empowering the citizen - it's mobile, it's cloud, it's storage - we are in all those areas.

Parents can't monitor what you are doing on Snapchat.

We won't sit idly by when a crime is committed in the real world. So why should we when it happens in cyber space?

Americans' information independence is under attack, whether it's the repeal of net neutrality or the repeal of broadband privacy protections.

Internet freedom is not possible without freedom from fear, and users will not be free from fear unless they are sufficiently protected from online theft and attack.

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

The Internet has made us richer, freer, connected and informed in ways its founders could not have dreamt of. It has also become a vector of attack, espionage, crime and harm.

After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department decided to take what Clinton calls a 'venture capital' approach to the funding of tools, research, public information projects, and training.

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

I'm very protective of my online life, and I try and take as many security measures.

David Cameron has already said, and I have said, that a Conservative government would be giving the security agencies and law enforcement agencies the powers that they need to ensure that they are keeping up to date as people communicate with data.

Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism.

Establishing robust cyberdefenses no more militarizes cyberspace than having a navy militarizes the ocean.

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

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.

I try not be an evildoer on the Internet.

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

The global threat of 'Big Brother' can actually be conquered purely by technology.