{"id":2351,"date":"2015-02-06T05:53:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T10:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2015-02-06T05:53:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T10:53:59","slug":"wow-email-encryption-relies-on-just-one-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/02\/06\/wow-email-encryption-relies-on-just-one-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow!  Email encryption relies on just ONE guy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World\u2019s Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke<br \/>\nWerner Koch\u2019s code powers the email encryption programs around the world. If only somebody would pay him for the work.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/the-worlds-email-encryption-software-relies-on-one-guy-who-is-going-broke\">http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/the-worlds-email-encryption-software-relies-on-one-guy-who-is-going-broke<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also interesting comments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2015\/02\/gpg_financial_d.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is amazing how many fundamental pieces of open source software are dependent on a handful (or just one) person.  There are a few that are supported by large groups, for instance Linux, Apache, gcc, but so many are hanging by a thread.  It would be nice to see some process whereby these people could be compensated, but I am not holding my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World\u2019s Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke Werner Koch\u2019s code powers the email encryption programs around the world. If only somebody would pay him for the work. http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/the-worlds-email-encryption-software-relies-on-one-guy-who-is-going-broke Also interesting comments here. It is amazing how many fundamental pieces of open source software are dependent on a handful (or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/02\/06\/wow-email-encryption-relies-on-just-one-guy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wow!  Email encryption relies on just ONE guy!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19,16,17,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-government","category-informationtechnology","category-infosec","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2352,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}