On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:42 PM, gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Ralf I suspect, if he were to use pgp, would be like me, and only >> > trust pgp-2.6.2a, the last one before they put Zimmerman in jail for >> > a few years. >> >> PZ was never put in jail. He was investigated for illegal export of >> 'munitions', but the US government dropped the case after some years >> without any charges being filed. > > Fons, no dis-respect intended, but I was there, observing closely, sitting > behind the keyboard of a full house supercharged amiga back in those years. > > He did do 2 or 3 years.
Are you sure you're not confusing PZ with RS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_schwartz http://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/18827445/philip-zimmermann-privacy-activist.htm >From a quick scan of the web, it seems PZ did do jail briefly, but it was long before he wrote PGP. - Dan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
