"in the Information Age, cryptography is about political power, and n particular, about the power relationship between a government and its people. It is about the right to privacy, freedom of speech, freedom of political association, freedom of the press, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, freedom to be left alone.
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The U.S. federal government wants to built a nationwide communication system designed for domestic surveillance, with technologies that in the long run can be used by the tyrants of the world to keep themselves in power.
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(preface to the Official PGP User's guide by Philip Zimmermann, October 1994)
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