>>From EPIC Alert 3.01: A (rare) victory for privacy and cyber-liberties! -H -- --- Forwarded mail from "EPIC-News" <•••@••.•••> ======================================================================= [1] FLASH -- Charges Dropped Against Phil Zimmermann ======================================================================= The federal government has dropped all charges against Phil Zimmermann, the author of the popular encryption program Pretty Good Privacy. In a letter addressed to Zimmermann's attorney Philip L. Dubois, federal prosecutors Michael Yamaguchi and William P. Keane wrote that " The U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of California has decided that your client, Philip Zimmermann, will not be prosecuted in connection with the posting to USENET in June 1991 of the encryption program Pretty Good Privacy. The investigation is closed." Mr. Zimmermann told the EPIC Alert that he was "greatly relieved." The software programmer, who has become a folk hero to hundreds of thousands Internet users as he has also lived daily with the threat of federal indictment said, "I am thrilled and elated by the decision." Copies of PGP and PGPFone may be downloaded from the EPIC web site at: http://www.epic.org/privacy/tools.html --~-- ======================================================================= The EPIC Alert is a free biweekly publication of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.To subscribe, send email to •••@••.••• with the subject: "subscribe" (no quotes). Back issues are available via http://www.epic.org/alert/ or FTP/WAIS/Gopher/HTTP from cpsr.org /cpsr/alert/ ======================================================================= --- End of forwarded message from "EPIC-News" <•••@••.•••> ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ For subscription info, archived postings/documents, and other useful material, visit the CPSR Cyber-Rights Web Page at: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/ The CPSR Cyber-Rights Library is available via FTP and WWW: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/archive/ ftp://ftp.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/archive/ You are encouraged to forward and cross-post list traffic, pursuant to any contained copyright & redistribution restrictions. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
