Essay Archive - A Modern Day Odysseus
A Modern Day Odysseus
"I wanted to strengthen democracy, to ensure that Americans could
protect their privacy." Philip R. Zimmermann, a modern day hero, started
with one powerful goal - to create easy to use, publicly available e-mail
encryption software. With patience, strong will, and the idea that privacy
is a right of the people, he did just that, and in doing so held up a
mirror to the world, showing it that it had permanently changed. The life
of Phil Zimmermann is full of epic grandeur, and undoubtedly forms a modern
day parallel to the hero Odysseus of Homer's....
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