“When Philip Zimmermann was campaigning for nuclear disarmament in the 1980s, he kept an escape plan in his back pocket. The inventor of the world’s most widely used email encryption system, Pretty Good Privacy – more commonly known as PGP – was ready to move his family from Colorado to New Zealand at a moment’s notice. The button was never pressed and the Zimmermanns stayed put. Until this year, that is. At 61, the Internet Hall of Fame inductee and founder of three-year-old mobile encryption startup Silent Circle has just left the US for Switzerland. In the end, it was not the nuclear threat that convinced him to leave his homeland, but the surveillance arms race.”
Related posts:
Fukushima appears to be leaking highly radioactive wastewater into ocean
D.C. Campaign Becomes First To Accept Bitcoin Contributions
Biden calls Ecuador’s president about NSA leaker Snowden
Former police chief gets probation for multiple drug charges
Face recognition pioneer now worried tech enables mass surveillance
Thousands of Brazilians march for president's removal
Brewington case focuses First Amendment attention on Indiana
Connecticut becomes first state to pass legislation requiring genetically modified (GM) food labelin...
Swiss lawyer uses $500,000 painting for bail in US tax fraud case
Stolen Target Credit Cards Are Selling For $20 - $100 Each
Black Panther's conviction overturned after 43 years in Louisiana solitary cell
Man attempts to blow up New York Fed with fake FBI bomb
Why does America have such a big prison population?
New UK wealth tax plan to target ALL assets - including jewelry and buy-to-let homes
A Desperate US Mint Testing New Metals to Make Coins Cheaper to Mint