“Metadata equals surveillance; it’s that simple.”
Category: Quotes
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Quote of the Day: Trevor Timm
“In other words, even the author of Section 215 thinks the government has twisted and distorted its language to justify something that the law was never supposed to allow.” -
Quote of the Day: Bruce Schneier
“The more we expect technology to protect us from people in the same way it protects us from nature, the more we will sacrifice the very values of our society in futile attempts to achieve this security.” -
Quote of the Day: Marco Arment
“‘Fn’ key should be pronounced like you’re censoring the swear word: ‘effin’ key.’” -
Quote of the Day: Shawn Blanc
“I bet you a cup of coffee there is something you can decide to be poor at so you can be better at something else.” -
Quote of the Day: Cindy Cohn and Mark M. Jaycox
“It’s time for those in government who want to rebuild the trust of the American people and others all over the world to come clean and take some actual steps to rein in the NSA.” -
Quote of the Date: The New York Times Editorial Board
“Time and again, the N.S.A. has pushed past the limits that lawmakers thought they had imposed to prevent it from invading basic privacy, as guaranteed by the Constitution.” -
Quote of the Day: Bruce Schneier
“Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.” -
Quote of the Day: Peter Buffett
“What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.” -
Quote of the Day: Connor Thomas O’Brien
“If we create great work and send it out into the world using a delivery mechanism conducive to piracy, it’s no wonder we end up getting screwed. As creators, we need to think smarter.” -
Quote of the Day: Bruce Schneier
“Today we’re installing technologies of ubiquitous surveillance, and the temptation to use them will be overwhelming.” -
Quote of the Day: Matthew M. Aid
“Since 9/11, the NCS has also developed a variety of so-called “black boxes” which can quickly crack computer passwords, bypass commercially-available computer security software systems, and clone cellular telephones — all without leaving a trace.” -
Quote of the Day: Seth Godin
“Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.” -
Quote of the Day: Edward Snowden
“The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.” -
Quote of the Day: Marco Arment
“Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership.” -
Quote of the Day: Jennifer Stisa Granick and Christopher Jon Sprigman
“It’s time to call the N.S.A.’s mass surveillance programs what they are: criminal.” -
Quote of the Day: Brian Merchant
“So, essentially, the NSA is deeply compromising our privacy so that it can do an extremely shitty job of looking for terrorists. Nice.” -
Quote of the Day: Steve Wozniak
“And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons, they disappeared them.” -
Quote of the Day: Bruce Schneier
“Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.”— Bruce Schneier, in 2006 -
Quote of the Day: Marco Arment
“Nobody — not Google, not the manufacturers, and certainly not the carriers — gives a shit if you hate your Android phone or put that cheap tablet in a drawer after a month.”