[546] in libertarians
PGP Creator needs your help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vernon Imrich)
Fri Jan 6 14:06:37 1995
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 14:05:45 EST
From: Vernon Imrich <vimrich@MIT.EDU>
This has been floating around in several different places, under
various formats, so I think it's legit.
-- forwarded message ---
Phil Zimmermann, who wrote the public-key encryption program known as Pretty
Good Privacy ("PGP") and released it on the Internet, is now facing
prosecution for "exporting" it out of the United States.
There is a law prohibiting the export of encryption software from the US.
Zimmermann did not do this, but the US government hopes to establish the
proposition that posting an encryption program on a BBS or on the Internet
constitutes exporting it--in effect, stretching export control into domestic
censorship. If the government wins, that will have a chilling effect on the
free flow of information on the global network, as well as on everyone's
privacy from government snooping.
Estimates are that Zimmermann's defense will cost over $100,000--and that
doesn't even count lawyers' fees. To help pay this, a legal trust fund, the
Philip Zimmermann Defense Fund (PZDF), has been established. Donations are
accepted in any reliable form, check, money order, or wire transfer, and in
any currency, as well as by credit card.
To send a check or money order by mail, make it payable, *not* to Phil
Zimmermann, but to "Philip L. Dubois, Attorney Trust Account." Mail the check
or money order to the following address:
Philip Dubois
2305 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80304
USA
Telephone: +1-303-444-3885
To send a wire transfer, your bank will need the following information:
Bank: VectraBank
Routing #: 107004365
Account #: 0113830
Account Name: ``Philip L. Dubois, Attorney Trust Account''
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