I started this company because I'm passionate about privacy. And I won't sit idly by while the freedom of the Internet is crushed and access to information is restricted under the thumb of repressive regimes.

We've been surprised how long it takes the Chinese to block these sites. It generally takes them in excess of one week.

Information bounces off a proxy that we operate. It encrypts all the traffic and scrambles the URLs, so there's no trace left on the user's PC.

This is not a government contract. This is something we're just doing ourselves.

It was sort of a moral imperative for us to take action and do something about it.

Our stand is that the national ID would diminish the freedom and privacy of law-abiding citizens. Just as an example, Social Security numbers were initially supposed to be used to administer the nation's retirement program and look at all the abuses there now.