zeroknowledge


© Michael Cruse

OK..OK...you say you can find anything on the Internet, from frozen frau grais to a dog walker for Benji, but you don't always feel secure giving out personal information online. I'd like to say, "welcome to capitalist culture," but it looks like someone's already beat me to the punchline. Zeroknowledge (www.zeroknowledge.com) is a relatively new presence on the front of Internet safety, offering what they call " Internet privacy solutions."

With full, two-page ads running in such publications as Newsweek, Zeroknowledge is committed to building privacy into new technologies. With ad slogans like, "I am not a piece of your inventory" and "On the Net I am in control," it sounds like they mean business. In fact, the President of Zeroknowledge, Austin Hill, said in his keynote address at the 10th Annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference "...privacy will be one of the most important issues of the next century.."

Hill sees three critical infrastructure that need to be (re)organized around issues of privacy, namely: communications networks, identity management systems, and commercial transactions. Hill and others worry that "more systems are being built so that privacy can't be supported." That is why he founded the only company working on a "cryptographically-secured privacy and identity-management infrastructure for the Internet." AAAhhhhhhhh.... Yes, I know. I don't know what that's supposed to mean either, but reading it made me imagine visions of Fort Knox, or atleast a very large padlock.

However, the point is not big, hyphenated words to make us feel safer, it's actual online safety. Hill, a Canadian, is a proponent of that socialized democracy that pours like molassass from north of the border, inviting us "...all to ask the questions and apply the pressure." The only way to do that is to be more knowledgable about what's happening with technology securities. Zeroknowledge offers a wealth of links, from press releases to related news articles to help you out. So find out more, before Big Brother does it for you.

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