[STOCKSHOTS BETACAM SP]
[Philip ZIMMERMAN, PGP ]

Paris, sept 5, 1996  
interviewed by Marc Salama
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47:43 Q14 - So, could you explain how they read? What is the mechanism of reading a message by a computer? How do they check what is an innocent message, and what is a non-innocent message? 

47:54 PZ - Computer are able to sift through millions of messages at a time to look for politically subversive keywords. So that they can separate the interesting messages from the boring messages. If a human had to do this, there would be safety in numbers, we would just have so many messages that were of no interest to the goverment that the government would not attempt to read them all. But because of computer technology that government or anyone in posession of these computers, and filtering the e-mail can automatically search for and find all of the interesting messages, and they might be interesting because of criminal activity, but they may also be interesting to the government because they are from the political opposition.

interviewed by Marc Salama