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Few days ago a fire destroyed Sealand, the independent state joke located on an abandoned anti-aircraft deck six miles off the British coast. The silly utopia of a data haven burned with it. HavenCo, the Sealand company running the offshore hosting service, was just a very badly planned business venture, but exotic enough to get good press coverage.

I like this guy! Phil Zimmermann quietly released a very neat application, Zfone as a reference application of his new cryptographic protocol ZRTP aimed to bring privacy to your VoIP calls. I hope it won’t cause him all the troubles that PGP brought him.

Few days ago Massimo Mantellini brought to my attention this Wired article from cryptography guru Bruce Schneier. It’s a brilliant short essay that explain how bold is the error of those confusing anonymity with accountability and how important is the quest for accountable systems, especially those accessed by anonymous users.