Grady Ward
William Grady Ward (born 4 April 1951) is an American software developer, lexicographer, and Internet activist. He is known for his commitment to the practices of Scientology.
Life
From 1979 to January 1989 he worked for the company Apple. He was questioned by the FBI as one of the five prime suspects after the secrecy of a software to design the Macintosh computer had been broken at Apple in 1989. Partly because of his abilities and liberal past and he should have had access to the software in question, suspicion fell on him.
Previously, Ward was known for the compilation and dissemination of a public domain version of the complete works of William Shakespeare ( "Moby Shakespeare ," based on the Globe edition of 1864), which reached the largest circulation of all collections of works of Shakespeare worldwide.
Grady Ward amassed the contents of the Moby Project, an extensive collection of mainly English-language lexical content, which he handed to the Public Domain in 1996. In the collection we find the Moby thesaurus synonyms contained with over 2.5 million words and mating represents the largest English-language thesaurus ever.
Ward focused on the development of a collection of source code fragments called Moby Crypto to promote the wide dissemination of timely, strong encryption technology. The U.S. government then treated strong cryptographic software in legal terms, such as weapons and ordered the deal so that appropriate limitations. 1993 was determined in connection with Moby Crypto against his publishing Austin Code Works because of accusations of illegal export of strong encryption technology. He also spread the concept, memorable by " shocking nonsense " and to create secure passphrases. On March 30, 1995, he assisted in the dissemination of a handbook for NSA employees, as it passed over the Phrack magazine to the public, who represented the view that a government that is unable to maintain secrecy of their own records, not even should be entrusted with the care of the proposed system by the NSA for the deposit of cryptographic keys.
1996 Ward sued Scientology for alleged copyright infringement, and they claimed that he was responsible for the anonymous publication of copyrighted material to which the "church" holds the copyright. After a few years of the guided thing as poor case in which Ward defended himself alone, more than 1,000 appointments at the Northern District of California, San Jose, perceived the dispute on 12 May 1998 was settled by the case was finally dismissed. Ward prevailed over the attempt of Scientology, to handle the case as a trade secret, but accepted the finding of the copyright claim by Scientology. Without admitting the alleged responsibility for the so established copyright infringement, he nevertheless agreed to a lifetime of regular payment of monthly $ 200 to Scientology. Unusually, for a legal comparison with Scientology, the settlement agreement was not kept secret and did not contain any restrictions on future utterances Ward about Scientology. The agreement itself was the occasion of a pending federal appeals court of the ninth circuit federal court litigation, but has so far been respected by both sides.