PGP
Wed Jul 19 2000 at 19:24:13
The biggest reason in my mind to use PGP is to resist the government. That sounds pretty crazy. I don t mean resist in an anarchistic or Disestablishmentarian way but in the same way that one doesn t want themselves being frisked by police daily. (Which seems to happen to me alot. Maybe its the way I look.)
The FBI, NSA, DEA and other government agencies now have the ability to wire-tap pretty much anything they want to. Most recently this has come in the form of the Omnivore and Carnivore boxes, which are installed at an ISP and filter through all the incomeing or outgoing packets to pick out those of suspected criminals. This means they read all the information passing though an ISP. That could be anything mine or your private emails, to our banking records, to this node I write, right now. Maybe thats not a terrible thing but I will feel alot safer when my web browser uses cryptographically strongencryption
Fri Dec 18 2020 at 7:50:03
Harold Thomas Finney II was a developer for the PGP corporation and was the second developer hired after Phil Zimmermann. Besides his work on PGP, he also contributed on bitcoin and is known for receiving the first bitcoin transaction from the creator of it, Satoshi Nakamoto back in January 2009. In 2004, Hal created the first reusable proof of work system before bitcoin, but did not achieve the solution to the double-spend problem.
He lived in the same town that Dorian Nakamoto lived, making him a suspect of being Satoshi. Although, he denied of being him. In March 2013, Hal created a topic on bitcointalk.org in which he explained his life after finding out about bitcoin. He also stated that was diagnosed with a fatal disease. Hal Finney died on his 58, in August 28, 2014 and left a great fortune of coins to his children as he mentioned.