Strong cryptography and no regrets.

No Regrets About Developing PGP
Philip Zimmermann, 24 Sept 2001

The Friday September 21st Washington Post carried an article by Ariana Cha that I feel misrepresents my views on the role of PGP encryption software in the September 11th terrorist attacks. She interviewed me on Monday September 17th, and we talked about how I felt about the possibility that the terrorists might have used PGP in planning their attack. The article states that as the inventor of PGP, I was "overwhelmed with feelings of guilt". I never implied that in the interview, and specifically went out of my way to emphasize to her that that was not the case, and made her repeat back to me this point so that she would not get it wrong in the article. This misrepresentation is serious, because it implies that under the duress of terrorism I have changed my principles on the importance of cryptography for protecting privacy and civil liberties in the information age.

http://www.philzimmermann.com/news-Response_WashPost.shtml

Jack Straw is trying the same misrepresentation:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2001-September/017600.html
(Update: see also http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1568000/1568254.stm)

But there are atheists in foxholes, and there are those who support liberty even under the duress of terrorism.

Women of Afghanistan vs. US and the Taliban

The people of Afghanistan have nothing to do with Osama and his accomplices
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, September 14, 2001.

The US government should consider the root cause of this terrible event, which has not been the first and will not be the last one too. The US should stop supporting Afghan terrorists and their supporters once and for all.

Now that the Taliban and Osama are the prime suspects by the US officials after the criminal attacks, will the US subject Afghanistan to a military attack similar to the one in 1998 and kill thousands of innocent Afghans for the crimes committed by the Taliban and Osama? Does the US think that through such attacks, with thousands of deprived, poor and innocent people of Afghanistan as its victims, will be able to wipe out the root-cause of terrorism, or will it spread terrorism even to a larger scale?

http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/ny-attack.htm