Quotes About Technology

Apple has a worldwide database of Wi-Fi passwords, including my home network's, from people backing up their iPhones.

For example, we know that the US government convinced Skype—through bribery, coercion, threat, or legal compulsion—to make changes in how the program operates, to facilitate eavesdropping.

The science and engineering of programming just isn't good enough to produce flawless software, and that isn't going to change anytime soon. The

You can load your own documents onto your Kindle, but Amazon is able to delete books it has already sold you. In 2009, Amazon automatically deleted some editions of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four from users' Kindles because of a copyright issue. I know, you just couldn't write this stuff any more ironically.

Already law enforcement agencies make use of predictive analytic tools to identify suspects and direct investigations. It's a short step from there to the world of Big Brother and thoughtcrime.

Opting out just isn't a viable choice for most of us, most of the time; it violates what have become very real norms of contemporary life.

The nature of computerized systems makes it easier for the attacker to find one exploitable vulnerability in a system than for the defender to find and fix all vulnerabilities in the system.

The UK company Cobham sells a system that allows someone to send a "blind" call to a phone—one that doesn't ring, and isn't detectable. The blind call forces the phone to transmit on a certain frequency, allowing the sender to track that phone to within one meter.

The bargain you make, again and again, with various companies is surveillance in exchange for free service.

our personal information is being bought and sold without our knowledge and consent.

Snowden put it like this in an online Q&A in 2013: "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.

Given current laws, trust is our only option.

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet for two primary reasons: people like free, and people like convenient.

Data is the exhaust of the information age.

NSA analyst touches something in the database,

The overwhelming bulk of surveillance is corporate, and it occurs because we ostensibly agree to it. I don't mean that we make an informed decision agreeing to it; instead, we accept it either because we get value from the service or because we are offered a package deal that includes surveillance and don't have any real choice in the matter.

SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM CONTINUES TO DRIVE THE INTERNET

Three: computers fail all at once or not at all.

The 2016 Worldwide Threat Assessment describes the threat this way: Future cyber operations will almost certainly

Psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, novelists, and technologists have all written about the effects of constant surveillance. Studies show that we are less healthy, both physically and emotionally. We have feelings of low self-esteem, depression, and anxiety. Surveillance strips us of our dignity. It threatens our very selves as individuals. It's a dehumanizing tactic employed in prisons and detention camps around the world.

Our privacy is under assault from constant surveillance. Understanding how this occurs is critical to understanding what's at stake.

Because we all use the same products, technologies, protocols, and standards, we either make it easier for everyone to spy on everyone, or harder for anyone to spy on anyone.

Security is hard; while you can show that a particular algorithm is weak, you can't show that one algorithm you don't know how to break is more secure than another.

Once the technology is in place, there will always be the temptation to use it. And it is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.