The company was co-founded by Mike Janke, a former Navy SEAL, and Phil Zimmermann, the creator of Pretty Good Privacy ( PGP) and other Internet encryption for voice and data.

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Speaking at the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit in Puerto Rico yesterday, President and Co-Founder Phil Zimmermann emphasized that Silent Circle will never include law-enforcement access mechanisms for its products.

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As it turns out, this flaw has actually existed since 1997, back when Phil Zimmermann, the original developer of PGP, added the data-recovery feature as he sought to commercialize the product for corporate use, Jones points out.

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Source code can also be distributed in text-based form like a PDF or scanable book which is what MIT did for Phil Zimmermann and later what 70 international volunteers did for the PGPi Scanning Project in 1997.

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