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Sameer Parekh ( Hindi: समीर परेख) is the founder of C2Net Software, Inc.
While in high school in Libertyville, Illinois, [1] he published an underground newspaper called The Free Journal, promoting libertarian ideas. [2]
In 1993 Parekh moved to Berkeley, California, to attend the University of California, Berkeley, and joined the cypherpunks. [3] In his second year at Cal, he started C2Net, a privacy-oriented ISP which provided anonymous accounts and an anonymous remailer, and was the first home of the Anonymizer web surfing proxy. [4] [5] [6]
Through the mid- to late 1990s, Parekh was a frequently cited critic of U.S. policy on encryption software. [7] [8] [9] [10] The cover story for the September 1997 issue of Forbes focused on his views of the political and social impact of cryptography. [1] Through C2Net, Parekh pioneered the offshore development of cryptography by U.S. companies to avoid U.S. regulation, [11] and later helped organize the first global conference on financial cryptography in Anguilla. [12] He was also an advisor to and the chairman of HavenCo, a company that attempted to create a data haven in the Principality of Sealand. [13]
After selling C2Net to Red Hat, [14] Parekh traveled around Central and Eastern Europe in 2001 on a DJ tour. He played in countries such as Poland, Serbia, Croatia, Latvia. [15] He also produced a number of "renegade" events in the Port of Oakland. [16]
Parekh was a 2007 Lincoln Fellow of the Claremont Institute. [17]
As of spring 2012, Parekh is the proprietor of Falkor Systems, a flying robot startup based in the New York area. [18] In 2014, he was "Entrepreneur in Residence" at the Correll Robotics lab, University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Sameer Parekh ( Hindi: समीर परेख) is the founder of C2Net Software, Inc.
While in high school in Libertyville, Illinois, [1] he published an underground newspaper called The Free Journal, promoting libertarian ideas. [2]
In 1993 Parekh moved to Berkeley, California, to attend the University of California, Berkeley, and joined the cypherpunks. [3] In his second year at Cal, he started C2Net, a privacy-oriented ISP which provided anonymous accounts and an anonymous remailer, and was the first home of the Anonymizer web surfing proxy. [4] [5] [6]
Through the mid- to late 1990s, Parekh was a frequently cited critic of U.S. policy on encryption software. [7] [8] [9] [10] The cover story for the September 1997 issue of Forbes focused on his views of the political and social impact of cryptography. [1] Through C2Net, Parekh pioneered the offshore development of cryptography by U.S. companies to avoid U.S. regulation, [11] and later helped organize the first global conference on financial cryptography in Anguilla. [12] He was also an advisor to and the chairman of HavenCo, a company that attempted to create a data haven in the Principality of Sealand. [13]
After selling C2Net to Red Hat, [14] Parekh traveled around Central and Eastern Europe in 2001 on a DJ tour. He played in countries such as Poland, Serbia, Croatia, Latvia. [15] He also produced a number of "renegade" events in the Port of Oakland. [16]
Parekh was a 2007 Lincoln Fellow of the Claremont Institute. [17]
As of spring 2012, Parekh is the proprietor of Falkor Systems, a flying robot startup based in the New York area. [18] In 2014, he was "Entrepreneur in Residence" at the Correll Robotics lab, University of Colorado at Boulder.