Phil Zimmerman, creator of the really cool encryption program PGP, is working on an encryption system for Voice over IP telephony.

This is pretty cool and a slap in the face of the Patriot Act’s wiretapping provisions. With end to end encryption for a telephone call the only way it could be tapped is by bugging the physical hardware or hacking the operating system.

Assuming the Feds don’t silence Phil before its release (like they tried to do in 1993), this will be a really powerful privacy tool that the government can’t control.

http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68306,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5