Philip Zimmermann

Audio/Video: Music, Lectures, and TV clips

Songs about PGP

Choose a recording to download. These are MP3 files.

PGP by Psykosonik, from their Unlearn album. Recorded in 1996, I think. Used with permission from Paul Sebastien. Psykosonik has disbanded, but Paul's new band is called Basic Pleasure Model.
Unlearn album art lyrics for PGP

PGP filk song by Leslie Fish, recorded in 1994. Used with permission.
For more songs by Leslie Fish, visit random-factors.com.
PGP filk song lyrics, text file.

Podcasts and Lectures

Phil Zimmermann on Tech Nation. RealAudio 7.7 MBytes, 33 minutes. Conversation with Moira Gunn on the PGP story, the Zfone Project, and surveillance technology, broadcast on 1 March 2009, for the radio show Tech Nation, at KQED in San Francisco. (Requires RealNetworks free RealPlayer)

Podcast - Perspectives on Privacy. A discussion of how the legal environment has changed in the years since PGP was developed, recorded in 2007.

PGP War Stories. 42 MBytes. One of my better lectures, recorded in July 2001 in San Francisco.

Video

Here are some QuickTime video clips to download:

Phil Zimmermann on PGP (11MB), TechTV Screen Savers, 8 minutes recorded 7 October 2003. Used with permission.
Phil Zimmermann on PGP (52MB High resolution QuickTime), TechTV Screen Savers, 8 minutes recorded 7 October 2003. Used with permission.

Phil Zimmermann interview on Obama's Blackberry security (WMV stream),
Discovery Channel Canada, Daily Planet, 19 January 2009, 5 minutes.

These are QuickTime movies. PC users must have QuickTime for Windows to display them. You can obtain QuickTime at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

Phil Zimmermann on The Whole Story of PGP, in two formats:

• 175MB - Fairly large Quicktime movie, or
• 378MB - Huge Windows Media file (skip over the first minute and 40 seconds).

This audience just wanted to hear PGP stories, but usually I speak on a broader range of topics. For details, click here.

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