Sameer Parekh

Sameer Parekh is best known for being the founder of C2Net Software, Inc.

While in high school in Libertyville, Illinois,^[1] he published an underground newspaper called The Free Journal, promoting free speech and other 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]

In 2007, Parekh attended Marine Officer Candidate School, but was sent home three weeks from completion due to a stress fracture.^[18] Parekh is now studying Mathematics in Finance at the Courant Institute at New York University.^[19]

See also

	Biography portal
	United States Marine Corps portal

• Information security

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Politics for the really cool - Forbes.com
2. ^ Index of the Free Journal
3. ^ Secret Agents, cover story of the East Bay Express, March 14, 1997
4. ^ First Monday: Prospects for Remailers
5. ^ The Anonymizer
6. ^ 5.01: Scans
7. ^ Interview with Sameer Parekh
8. ^ Hacking the Encryption Export Ban
9. ^ Interview with Sameer Parekh Issue 20
10. ^ Can you keep a secret?
11. ^ C2Net Short-Circuits US Crypto Policy
12. ^ Cryptography and Paranoia in Anguilla
13. ^ Wired 8.07: Welcome to Sealand. Now Bugger Off
14. ^ Red Hat to Acquire C2Net, the Number One Commercial Secure Web Server Developer
15. ^ Sameer's Gallery :: Tour 2001 (dead link)
16. ^ Putting Tech in TECHNO / Dot-coms, electronic music scene in harmony
17. ^ The Claremont Institute - 2007 Lincoln Fellows
18. ^ Creative Destruction: Sent home
19. ^ [1]

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