GPG Programmer Werner Koch Is Running Out of Money

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 5, 2015 @12:13PM from the open-secret dept.

New submitter jasonridesabike writes "ProPublica reports that Werner Koch, the man behind GPG, is in financial straits: "The man who built the free email encryption software used by whistleblower Edward Snowden, as well as hundreds of thousands of journalists, dissidents and security-minded people around the world, is running out of money to keep his project alive. Werner Koch wrote the software, known as Gnu Privacy Guard, in 1997, and since then has been almost single-handedly keeping it alive with patches and updates from his home in Erkrath, Germany. Now 53, he is running out of money and patience with being underfunded." (You can donate to the project here..)

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Wrong Koch by penguinoid · 2015-02-05 12:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Too bad, I know of two of his relatives who have more money then they know what is morally correct to do with.

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