Lance Cottrell
Lance Cottrell
Lance Cottrell develops Internet privacy systems. Cottrell launched the commercial privacy service, Anonymizer.com, in 1995 while studying towards a PhD in Astrophysics at the University of California, San Diego. Cottrell was the original coder for the Mixmaster anonymous remailer and designed version 1 Mixmaster Protocol. As president of Anonymizer.com and in conjunction with the EFF, Cottrell established the Kosovo Privacy Project which, using Anonymizer.com services, allowed individuals to report from the 1999 Kosovo war zone without fear of retaliation...
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information left trace traffic
Information bounces off a proxy that we operate. It encrypts all the traffic and scrambles the URLs, so there's no trace left on the user's PC.
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This is not a government contract. This is something we're just doing ourselves.
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It was sort of a moral imperative for us to take action and do something about it.
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I started this company because I'm passionate about privacy. And I won't sit idly by while the freedom of the Internet is crushed and access to information is restricted under the thumb of repressive regimes.
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We see protecting privacy as a moral imperative.
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We've been surprised how long it takes the Chinese to block these sites. It generally takes them in excess of one week.