Quotes About Privacy

A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches the walls with imperious demands.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

They made data a controlled substance.

Kids who are obsessed with locks frequently turn into adults who are obsessed with crypto.

The Deliverator had to borrow some money to pay for it. Had to borrow it from the Mafia, in fact. So he's in their database now—retinal patterns, DNA, voice graph, fingerprints, footprints, palm prints, wrist prints, every fucking part of the body that had wrinkles on it—almost—those bastards rolled in ink and made a print and digitized it into their computer.

Every parent of a teenager gets used to it: the moment in a child's life when he or she decides that certain facts are just too much trouble to explain to Mom or Dad. The parents can't, and needn't, know every last little thing.

The FBI hates and fears strong crypto.

I hate e-mail," John says. Harvard Li stares him in the eye for a while. "What do you mean?" "The concept is good. The execution is poor. People don't observe any security precautions. A message arrives claiming to be from Harvard Li, they believe it's really from Harvard Li. But this message is just a pattern of magnetized spots on a spinning disk somewhere. Anyone could forge it.

When it gets really intolerable, he goes to the latrine (so that the staff will not break in on him at an inopportune moment) and executes a Manual Override.

These are one-time pads.

CRYPTOLOGY, as the union of cryptography and cryptanalysis is called.

They are running a secure operating system you've never heard of," he explained. "It's called Shiny Hat." "Shiny Hat." "Yes. The most clinically paranoid operating system in the world. Since you have an overdeveloped sense of irony, Stokes, you might like to know that we acquired it from hackers who were specifically worried about being eavesdropped on by shadowy government entities. Now they work for us.

Smart, rabidly paranoid people are the backbone of cryptology

Why couldn't I fill my hard drive with random bytes, so that individual files would not be discernible? Their very existence would be hidden in the noise, like a striped tiger in tall grass. And we could continually stream random noise back and forth to each other.

Van Eck phreaking

If he wants me to stay away, he should leave me alone.

All I have is my mind, and nobody can see that.

It struck him that the world was full of professional snoops, and it was sad that Americans didn't even trust Americans anymore.

When they send someone to interrupt a private conversation, it means that they weren't able to eavesdrop.

Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy.

If people knew the sexual intimacy of each other, no one would greet each other on the street.

Unshed tears of an unrequited desire for vengeance are exhausting and require privacy.

Facebook knows almost everything about their lives, their families and their friends . . . It is also a platform built on exhibitionism and voyeurism, where users edit themselves to exhibit a more flattering side and they quietly spy on their friends.

on Facebook 'the user is the product