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Phil Zimmermann at GT
Hello all,
FYI.
Levien
Forwarded message:
>From: "Hans K. Klein" <[email protected]>
>Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 14:02:30 -0500
>
> PHIL ZIMMERMANN, CREATOR OF PRETTY GOOD PRIVACY (PGP)
> TO SPEAK AT GEORGIA TECH
> MONDAY, APRIL 5, AT 2 PM
> =====================================================
>
>Phil Zimmermann, one of the world's most influential advocates of Internet
>civil liberties, is coming to the Georgia Institute of Technology.
>Zimmermann will speak on Georgia Tech campus on:
> Monday, April 5, at 2 PM
> at the Clary Theater
> in the Bill Moore Student Success Center
> (located next to football stadium)
>
>Zimmermann is the author of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) the de facto world
>standard for Email encryption. PGP provides a very high level of privacy
>for citizens in their electronic communications. So powerful is PGP that
>the federal government prohibited its export and even investigated
>Zimmermann for his role in the diffusion of PGP as freeware. These actions
>highlighted the tensions between individual privacy rights and government
>surveillance of electronic commmunications.
>
>Zimmermann is both a technical expert and a recognized spokesperson for
>civil liberties on the Internet. He has given testimony in Congress and
>has been featured in many news reports.
>
>Information about Zimmermann is available on the WWW. His personal home
>page, which includes his Congressional testimony on the importance of PGP
>for civil liberties, is at:
> http://www.pgp.com/phil/phil.cgi
>
>This talk is sponsored by:
> The Georgia Tech chapter of
> Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
> School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech
> College of Computing at Georgia Tech
> The Ivan Allen College of Georgia Tech
>
>For more information contact:
> Hans Klein
> Assistant Professor of Public Policy
> Faculty advisor to CPSR student chapter
> Tel: (404) 894-2258
> Email: [email protected]