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Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial?

— Jose Rizal

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code.

— Matt Mullenweg

The premise of 'Secret Coders' is reminiscent of 'Harry Potter.' An intrepid band of tweens stumbles upon a secret school, only instead of teaching magic, the school teaches coding.

— Gene Luen Yang

When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to another nation: traitor. We also had a name for a person who chooses to reveal secrets he had personally promised to protect: common criminal.

— Mike Pompeo

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

— Ken Thompson

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

— Don DeLillo

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

— Cofer Black

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

— John le Carre

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

— Julian Assange

A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases.

— Lysander Spooner

✗Opposing Perspectives

Under the cover of encryption, terror masterminds provide recruits with the tactics and tools necessary to carry out attacks using small arms and explosives. None of this requires any overseas travel.

— Tom Cotton