In 1990 William Ghetti, a staff sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, had a letter published in British newspaper The Independent in which he challenged the purpose of American offensives in the Gulf. His comments, later cited in a U.K. Parliament debate over whether U.K. military should assist the U.S., still resonate: "The greed that drives our oil-based world economy has put us in the position that we are willing to risk our nation's sons and daughters in the quest for stable prices at the pumps." Fast-forward a quarter of a century and Ghetti's 28-year-old son, Adam, is about to embark on a mission that will also fly in the face of Western governments' thinking. Amid calls from heads of state to allow intelligence agencies access to all private communications, Ghetti the younger has launched a business, Ionic Security in Atlanta, that he hopes will make spies' intrusions into digital lives a near impossibility and data theft "irrelevant."
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