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"Lance Cottrell" develops Internet privacy systems. Cottrell launched the commercial privacy service, Anonymizer.com, in 1995 while studying towards a PhD in Astrophysics at the University of California, San Diego. Cottrell was the original coder for the Mixmaster anonymous remailer and designed version 1 Mixmaster Protocol. As president of Anonymizer.com and in conjunction with the Electronic Frontier Foundation/EFF, Cottrell established the Kosovo Privacy Project which, using Anonymizer.com services, allowed individuals to report from the 1999 Kosovo war zone without fear of retaliation.
Cottrell's company Anonymizer Inc. was acquired by Abraxas Corporation in April 2008 and Cottrell now serves as Chief Scientist for the company.
Cottrell is a noted privacy advocate and has appeared in dozens of interviews on radio, TV, and in print, as well as speaking at numerous conferences.
More Lance Cottrell on Wikipedia.We see protecting privacy as a moral imperative.
Information bounces off a proxy that we operate. It encrypts all the traffic and scrambles the URLs, so there's no trace left on the user's PC.
I started this company because I'm passionate about privacy. And I won't sit idly by while the freedom of the Internet is crushed and access to information is restricted under the thumb of repressive regimes.
We've been surprised how long it takes the Chinese to block these sites. It generally takes them in excess of one week.
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