From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:07:38 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: (Fwd from f-c) Note from PGP employee on MRK
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>From: Jamie McCarthy <jamie@mccarthy.org>
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>A friend of mine by the name of Jason Bobier <jason@pgp.com> happens
>to work at PGP, Inc.  I'll preface his comments by pointing out that
>I'm sure he doesn't speak for the company in any way.
>
>> Unfortunately these people just don't get it. Corporations refused
>> to buy 5.0 because it did not have any way for the corps to get at
>> email encrypted to their employees. There are some very legitimate
>> uses of this, such as when an employee dies and someone else has
>> to take over for them.
>>
>> Without corps buying the product, there is no PGP, Inc., and thus
>> no dedication of resources to the production of PGP. This leads us
>> back to the floundering state of development that PGP was in
>> before 5.0.
>>
>> They also don't seem to realize that you always have the ability
>> to remove the MRK from your list of recipients.
>>
>> Sometimes I really feel like screaming at these people. _All_ of
>> the developers at PGP are personal privacy zealots and no one
>> likes the idea of the MRK. That is why we refuse to make them
>> required. It is also why there still are freeware and personal
>> versions of the product. I wish they would just realize that we
>> aren't some evil group of people that are solely plotting how to
>> make the most money off of this. Most everyone at PGP has
>> internalized personal privacy as a cause (actually most had it
>> before they joined PGP).
>>
>> *sigh* OK, enough ranting. Feel free to quote various parts of
>> this if you feel like responding to the list.
>>
>> Jason
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