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A Modern Day Odysseus
"I wanted to strengthen democracy, to ensure that Americans could
protect their privacy." Philip R. Zimmermann, a modern day hero, started
with one powerful goal - to create easy to use, publicly available e-mail
encryption software. With patience, strong will, and the idea that privacy
is a right of the people, he did just that, and in doing so held up a
mirror to the world, showing it that it had permanently ....
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.... listen to. Before PGP, the United
States government had spied on people through simply steaming open
envelopes and recording phone conversations. Not only that, but e-mail was,
and still is to this day, notoriously simple to intercept. With a set of
good intentions, Phil Zimmermann changed all this by coding powerful
software and giving it away for free.
In order to achieve their goals, heroes generally have a high level
of ability. Odysseus wa ....
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