Zero Knowledge

Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:30:00 -0400
/technology

Ever wondered what happened to Zero Knowledge, the 1997 Canadian start-up with a board of advisors featuring Lawrence Lessig and Bruce “Blowfish” Schneier? They lured Mozilla’s Mike Shaver away at the peak of the boom to build ”’Freedom’ technology … provides pseudonyms, encryption, and an anonymizing network to protect privacy online”.

Well, they survived the crash, but only by selling antivirus/firewall/popup-block boredom to customers and privacy policy management packages to business.

Now the happier part, ‘Freedom’ now does provide the encrypted anonymous web surfing service expected, after dropping cross OS support and being renamed to ‘Freedom WebSecure’. $60/month. Check out the ‘rave reviews’.