Tim Cook Quotations | Page 2

Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac.

With hacking getting more and more sophisticated, the hacking community has gone from the hobbyist in the basement to huge sophisticated companies that are essentially doing this, or groups of people or foreign agents inside and outside the United States.

In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you.

I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I'm willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero. My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I'm not the only person that thinks that.

I don't own encryption, Apple doesn't own encryption. Encryption, as you know, is everywhere. In fact some of encryption is funded by our government.

If you're worried about messaging, people will just move to something else. You know if you legislate against Facebook and Apple and Google and whatever else in the US, they'll just use something else. So are we really safer then? I would say no. I would say we're less safe, because now we've opened up all of the infrastructure for people to go wacko at.

The reality of today from a cyber security point of view - I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security.

When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy.

Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.

Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.