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The decisions we make about communication security today will determine the kind of society we live in tomorrow.
Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.
I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.
Choosing providers is not a choice between surveillance/not; it's just choosing which feudal lord gets to spy on you.
I have been working on two problems for three years: one of them for 8 or 9 years, and one of them for 3, 4, 5 years.
The crypto currency community hasn't decided whether they want to be anarchist rebels or to replace the establishment.
Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.
If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.
The question to ask when you look at security is not whether this makes us safer, but whether it's worth the trade-off.
People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.
I think, and I've thought this for a long time, that we live, roughly speaking, in the last generation of human beings.
A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
I tell people: if it's in the news, don't worry about it, because by definition, news is something that almost never happens.
We no longer know whom to trust. This is the greatest damage the NSA has done to the Internet, and will be the hardest to fix.
It's certainly easier to implement bad security and make it illegal for anyone to notice than it is to implement good security.
People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
The most important impact of technology on communications security is that it draws better and better traffic into vulnerable channels.
I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.
If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.
And honestly, if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.
If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.
Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos.
No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented.
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much
I really believe in the radical viewpoint. And I have always believed that one's politics and the character of his particular work are inseparable.
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.
If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.
The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.
I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.
This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community.
Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched.
I am not convinced that lack of encryption is the primary problem. The problem with the Internet is that it is meant for communications among non-friends.
In a sense, communications networks can be defined entirely by who has cryptographic keys, and I think a lot of networks will work that way in the future.
If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.
One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.
It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.
Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about
Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.
Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet todays surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.
If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.
Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.
I think that the people who are trying to shut down WikiLeaks are going to have to accept this as a fact of reality that cryptography allows you to do this kind of thing.
I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that.