"Advances in technology will not permit the maintenance of the status quo, as far as privacy is concerned. The status quo is unstable. If we do nothing, new technologies will give the government new automatic surveillance capabilities that Stalin could never have dreamed of. The only way to hold the line on privacy in the information age is strong cryptography. [...] If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy. [...] PGP empowers people to take their privacy into their own hands. There has been a growing social need for it. That's why I wrote it."
– Phil Zimmermann, Why I Wrote PGP, 1999
https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html
lugaxker / Ludovic Lars
npub1swc…7qz3
2023-07-06 15:42:44
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npub1swcv2tkpyp8u60psn3m0t294gnmkljkzrkn9vy5hs22lgjtltqcsz67qz3Published at
2023-07-06 15:42:44Event JSON
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