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He mirrored WikiLeaks content and organized a march in support of the organization during the period in late 2010 when WikiLeaks found itself thrown off of AmazonвЂ™s hosting service and blocked by credit card companies.

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вЂњDuring 20 I was a defender of WikiLeaks and the free press in general, and I thought вЂCollateral MurderвЂ™ (the WikiLeaks publication of a controversial helicopter assault video) was a highly significant piece of journalism,вЂќ he said. Online privacy doesnвЂ™t have a lot of corporate or governmental fans these days, but Kobeissi has faced controversy before. When he flies through the US, heвЂ™s generally had the notorious вЂњSSSSвЂќ printed on his boarding pass, marking him for searches and interrogations - which Kobeissi says have focused on his development of the chat client. To create Cryptocat Kobeissi had to deal with controversies in computer security, usability and geo-politics.

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вЂњThe fact that you donвЂ™t have to install anything, the fact that it works instantly, this increases security,вЂќ he explained, sitting down with Wired at HOPE 9 to talk about Cryptocat, activism and getting through American airports. For Kobeissi, that means non-technical people anywhere in the world can talk without fear of online snooping from corporations, criminals or governments. ItвЂ™s the first chat client in the browser to allow anyone to use end-to-end encryption to communicate without the problems of SSL, the standard way browsers do crypto, or mucking about with downloading and installing other software. But as little as two years ago such a site was considered to be likely impossible to code.Д¬ryptocat is an encrypted web-based chat. ItвЂ™s deceptively simple for a web app that can save lives, subvert governments and frustrate marketers. ThereвЂ™s some explanatory text, but little else. The visitor has the option to name, then enter a chat. The site, crypto.cat, has a chunky, 8-bit sensibility, with a big-eyed binary cat in the corner. He is the creator of Cryptocat, a project вЂњto combine my love of cryptography and cats,вЂќ he explained to an overflowing audience of hackers at the HOPE conference on Saturday, July 14. Twenty-one-year-old college student Nadim Kobeissi is from Canada, Lebanon and the internet.

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