Phil Zimmermann's case dropped by US govt

[Luciano Dondero <DOND001@xxxxxx>]

Dear comrades and friends,
I think we should all rejoice for the following piece of news.
Yours in privacy,
Luciano
-forwarded (excerpts) -
from "The EPIC Alert", Volume 3.01, January 11, 1995
Published by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), Washington,
D.C.,                               info@xxxxxxxx, http://www.epic.org
   [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
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