A comfortable relationship

Die Ausweichbewegungen nehmen zu: PGP-Entwickler Phil Zimmermann verlegt den Sitz seiner IT-Sicherheitsfirma aus den USA in die Schweiz, schreibt Juliette Garside im Guardian. Er tut es aus Gründen: „We are less likely to encounter legal pressures there than in the US,“ says Zimmermann. … British society is „too accepting of surveillance“, Zimmermann believes. „Here people have a comfortable relationship with their own government and maybe that's why they don't raise objection to it. Future governments that come to power might not be so nice, and if they inherit a surveillance infrastructure then they could use this to create an incumbency that cannot be changed.“ (via Fefe, der leider nur eine sekundäre Quelle verlinkt)