The Web was never built for privacy and security.

Going forward, [privacy] will be one of the most important issues this century. The next five years will be the deciding factor.

The idea behind the pseudonyms is that you can eliminate the dossier effect, where everything you're doing is being collected, archived, and linked to you.

[ISPs also benefit from joining the Freedom Network, Hill says, because it limits their legal liabilities.] We've seen cases where users get into a flame war that ends up in a civil suit and the ISP gets dragged in, ... It's a lot easier to be able to say, 'I don't have any data on this.' It's an encrypted stream of traffic.

You could go to a store, buy an MP3, pay with e-cash and walk away, ... And you might do that under your music-listening pseudonym. That way, they can give you great referrals, but they don't know who you are.

If there was a gun to my head, I still could not reveal or break the privacy of my users.

You can have separate identities for the separate parts of your life. For example, you can have a health-care identity that you use to discuss your health care problems, and a separate identity that you use to apply for health insurance, which is your true identity. But now, those two identities are separated.

If this is true, it could potentially be a very serious problem for Intel. It could lead to demands for a recall of the chip.

We're giving Internet users total privacy, which they've never had before. We don't even ask you to trust us because even we don't know where you are browsing.