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However, public-key encryption created a headache for the NSA by giving ordinary citizens -- and savvy criminals -- a way to exchange coded messages that could not be easily cracked. That headache became a nightmare in 1991, when a cypherpunk programmer named Phil Zimmermann combined public-key encryption with some conventional algorithms in a piece of software he called PGP -- pretty good privacy -- and proceeded to give it away, free of charge, on the Internet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Should Keep the Keys? | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

...missed both of the first two lectures, what follows, is a composite dramatization of what one exciting lecture might be like. Be warned: this has not, to my knowledge, actually happened yet, Imagine this as what might be the result of a Current Affair feature or network miniseries on Phil...

Author: By Martin Lebwohl, | Title: Thinking About Egos | 2/19/1994 | See Source »

That, my friends, is Phil. 192: where you learn to think about thinking. Rumor has it that by the semester's end, some students will have figured out what in God's name that means...

Author: By Martin Lebwohl, | Title: Thinking About Egos | 2/19/1994 | See Source »

...team's manager, former major league knuckleballer Phil Niekro who won 300 games in the bigs, has a proper sense of just what's at stake. He told the Sentinel: "I think it's time that everyone saw what females could do if given the chance to compete in professional baseball at the minor league or major league level...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Toward a More Perfect League | 1/12/1994 | See Source »

...Phil Niekro, the Silver Bullets manager, is right, but he understates the situation. American society is systemmatically squandering half of its baseball talent...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Toward a More Perfect League | 1/12/1994 | See Source »

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