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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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- ^ "Index of /Politics/Free.Journal". June 20, 2001. Archived from the original on 2001-06-20.
- ^ Secret Agents Archived 2011-06-10 at the Wayback Machine, cover story of the East Bay Express, March 14, 1997
- ^ "First Monday: Prospects for Remailers". Archived from the original on May 17, 2008.
- ^ "The Anonymizer". www.december.com. Archived from the original on 2022-11-03. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
- ^ Staff, WIRED (January 1, 1997). "Scans". Wired. Archived from the original on May 15, 2023. Retrieved May 30, 2024 – via www.wired.com.
- ^ "Interview with Sameer Parekh | Linux Journal". www.linuxjournal.com. Archived from the original on 2023-11-26. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
- ^ "Stefan Wolf CyberSecurity & IAM Consulting". cybertrust.de. Archived from the original on 2024-04-14. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
- ^ "Interview with Sameer Parekh Issue 20". linuxgazette.net. Archived from the original on 2021-12-06. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
- ^ "Can you keep a secret?". www.efc.ca. Archived from the original on 2007-08-19. Retrieved 2008-03-23.
- ^ "C2Net Short-Circuits US Crypto Policy". Wired. March 19, 1997. Archived from the original on October 27, 2020. Retrieved May 30, 2024 – via www.wired.com.
- ^ "Cryptography and Paranoia in Anguilla". archive.nytimes.com. Archived from the original on 2022-03-16. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
- ^ Garfinkel, Simson (July 1, 2000). "Welcome to Sealand. Now Bugger Off". Wired. Archived from the original on April 22, 2021. Retrieved May 30, 2024 – via www.wired.com.
- ^ "News and press releases". www.redhat.com. Archived from the original on 2024-05-26. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
- ^ "Sameer's Gallery :: Tour 2001". Archived from the original on October 9, 2007.[dead link]
- ^ Hua, Vanessa (January 21, 2001). "Putting Tech in TECHNO / Dot-coms, electronic music scene in harmony". SFGate. Archived from the original on March 8, 2016. Retrieved May 30, 2024.
- ^ "The Claremont Institute - 2007 Lincoln Fellows". Archived from the original on May 15, 2008.
- ^ "falkorsystems.com". falkorsystems.com. Archived from the original on 2024-05-14. Retrieved 2024-05-30.