“I want a guarantee that the government will not be able to secretly tap my phone. I don't want a guarantee that my phone will never be tapped. I want a guarantee that if it is tapped, I will know it, and there will be a public record of it.”

About John Gilmore

Activist • American

John Gilmore is a prominent American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and civil libertarian. He is a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Cygnus Solutions, and was one of the first employees at Sun...