[553] in libertarians
Re: PGP Creator needs your help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Dershowitz)
Tue Jan 10 09:55:43 1995
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 95 09:53:42 EST
To: Vernon Imrich <vimrich@MIT.EDU>, libertarians@MIT.EDU
From: dersh@MIT.EDU (Adam Dershowitz)
I was concerned about whether it was legit. I spoke to a few people,
including Zimmermann, and am now convinced that it is ligit. If you do
want to contribute, you can also (apropriately enough) E-mail a credit card
number (along with expiration date, amount of donation, and a phone number
just in case) and use PGP to encypt it. Phil Dubois (his attorney) is
dubois@csn.org. He has a public key, and is happy to take donations that
way. That is how I sent something.
--Adam
At 2:05 PM 1/6/95, Vernon Imrich wrote:
>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''
>
> --end forward ---
>
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