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SUMMARY:A conversation with Phil Zimmermann - Phil Zimmerman
DTSTART:20090430T160000Z
DTEND:20090430T170000Z
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CONTACT:Joseph Bonneau
DESCRIPTION:Phil Zimmermann is a veteran of the crypto wars of the 1990s\,
  when governments tried to ban and then to control cryptography. After he 
 wrote Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)\, which he made available online in 1991\,
  he was arraigned before a grand jury on suspicion of violating export-con
 trol laws. PGP became the most widely-used encryption program in the world
  and the US government dropped its case in 1996. That attempt to control c
 rypto petered out during the dotcom boom and was abandoned by Al Gore duri
 ng the 2000 election.  \n\nBut the surveillance state has constantly reinv
 ented itself\, from the illegal wiretapping of US citizens under George W.
  Bush to the proliferation of CCTV cameras in Britain and - now - the Inte
 rception Modernisation Program.  \n\nThis rising tide of surveillance sinc
 e 9/11 brought Phil back into the business of crypto activism with Zfone\,
  a secure VOIP program.  \n\nThis meeting will be structured not so much a
 s a lecture but a conversation\, which will range over the technology and 
 policy of crypto wars old and new.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2
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