Ben Laurie is an English software engineer. He is currently the Director of Security at The Bunker Secure Hosting. Laurie wrote Apache-SSL, the basis of most

SSL SSL may refer to: Entertainment * RoboCup Small Size League, robotics football competition * ''Sesame Street Live'', a touring version of the children's television show * StarCraft II StarLeague, a Korean league in the video game Natural language ...

-enabled versions of the

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. He developed the MUD ''Gods'', which was innovative in including

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in its endgame. Laurie also has written several articles, papers and books, and is interested in ideal knots and their applications. Laurie was a member of

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' Advisory Board. According to Laurie, he had little involvement with WikiLeaks, and didn't know who ran the site other than

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. In 2009, he also said he wouldn't trust WikiLeaks to protect him if he were a whistleblower because "the things that Wikileaks relies on are not sufficiently strong to defend against" a government's resources.

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