The spread of strong consumer encryption technology around the globe is inevitable;
Looking back, there hasn't been a single day in WhatsApp's 10 year journey when this service was secure.
Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.
The arc of technology is in the direction of unbreakable encryption, and no laws are going to get in the way of that reality.
We are moving to a world where all content is encrypted all the time.
One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.
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.
I think anybody who uses email in the center of our life needs encryption.
We need to make sure that organisations like WhatsApp - and there are plenty of others like that - don't provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each other.
WhatsApp has a consistent history - from zero encryption at its inception to a succession of security issues strangely suitable for surveillance purposes.
We all love privacy. We all care about public safety. And none of - at least people that I hang around with, none of us want back doors. We don't want access to devices built-in in some way.
The No. 1 reason for me to support and help launch Telegram was to build a means of communication that can't be accessed by the Russian security agencies, so I can talk about it for hours.
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.
I trust and use RakEM for my private messages and calls. Other messengers collected metadata about who I messaged, when and where - RakEM does not collect metadata, encrypts local files, and uses the strongest end-to-end encryption around.
I realized I don't have a safe means of communications. That's how Telegram started.
With original cryptography, you are just trying to secure one narrow thing - say, communications - and you are trying to secure it from a third party. But you can't secure it from the party you are talking to if they forward your email; it doesn't matter how well your email is encrypted.
WhatsApp I adore. I use it all the time with my friends.
I talk to cryptographers, some of the leading technologists in the world, all the time about how we can deal with these issues. It is not possible to create a back door that is only accessible, for example, to the FBI.
