Dorothy Denning Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

We think the government should be pushing for more encryption. That it's a great thing. You know, it's like the sun and the air and the water.

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

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

It is a fiction to imagine that the haphazard paper chits of old are more private than the modern digital alternative. Paper records have always presented a security risk.

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

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

In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'

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

Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.

I support safeguarding users' personally identifiable information and sensitive data like health or financial records. I also believe the government has a responsibility to punish deceptive and unfair practices that defy reasonable expectations about consumers' privacy.

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

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.

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.

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 this era of massive online connectivity, the majority of privacy breaches and data leaks remain unknown, unchallenged, and unregulated. Regulatory compliance alone cannot ensure privacy.

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.

The encryption genie is out of the bottle.

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.