here... have some random crypto quotes:
"Within Europe, all email, telephone, and fax communications are routinely intercepted by the United States National Security Agency"
-- European Parliament report "Assessing the Technologies of Political Control"
"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks."
-- Article 12 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
"I am smug enough to say that NSA can't break RSA or discrete logs."
-- Bob Silverman posting to sci.crypt, January 5, 1996.
"Legality? That particular aspect didn't enter into the discussions."
-- Benson K Buffham, Deputy Director NSA when questioned by the Senate Church Committee about domestic monitoring
"NSA systematically intercepts international communications, both voice and cable."
-- General Allen, Director of the NSA testifying before Congress
"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men"
-- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943)
"First they came for the hackers.
But I never did anything illegal with my computer,
so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the pornographers.
But I thought there was too much smut on the Internet anyway,
so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the anonymous remailers.
But a lot of nasty stuff gets sent from anon.penet.fi,
so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the encryption users.
But I could never figure out how to work PGP anyway,
so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for me.
And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
-- Unknown
gg pasting half of
http://www.samsimpson.com/quotes/cquotes.php