Letters to Phil (Score 1)

I already unloaded most of my comments on the subject in a hasty reply, but I thought I should point this out.

Over the past few years, human rights workers in extremely dangerous environments have written various letters to Phil Zimmerman. Not only do those letters thank him, but they essentially say that PGP -- and its availability abroad -- has saved lives. Strong PGP encryption in foreign countries has sometimes been the only barrier preventing perfectly good people from being murdered, raped, and otherwise hassled rather badly.

Now, of course, some of those human rights workers are indeed dissidents against their governments. Where they are, they break the law; they subvert the area governments' abilities to slaughter and suppress at will. But that's another discussion altogether.

-- Rene --