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Ian Goldberg has been one of the cypherpunks who have appeared on the TV news —and no, not in a massive legal issue like Julian Assange. Let's learn about him!
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Ian Goldberg is a Canadian computer scientist and privacy advocate. He broke Netscape's security in 1995, in a few hours. His most important work is the Off-the-record (OTR) messaging protocol.