When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow the Government to deploy those technologies.
-- Philip Zimmermann
Advances in technology will not permit the maintenance of the status quo, as far as privacy is concerned.
-- Philip Zimmermann
Some Americans don't understand why I should be this concerned about the power of government. But talking to people in Eastern Europe, you don't have to explain it to them. They already get it-- and they don't understand why we don't.
-- Philip Zimmermann
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.
-- Philip Zimmermann
Today, we live in a new world that has had two major breakthroughs that have an impact on this state of affairs. The first is the coming of the personal computer and the information age. The second breakthrough is public-key cryptography.
-- Philip Zimmermann
You don't have to distrust the government to want to use cryptography.
-- Philip Zimmermann
When privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.
-- Philip Zimmermann
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