The origins

During summer 2005 Marco and Giulio Cesare felt the urge to spend more time thinking and writing with no constraints about the idea of the “web as a platform”. Quite soon they focused on few topics that seemed central to this very idea: privacy and information security. The Clipperz blog was launched to share their visions and get feedback and insights from other people.

Then, being entrepreneurs at heart, they envisioned a path to make the Internet the most convenient and safe place to store and share private data. This weird and counterintuitive business idea seemed sound, so Clipperz became not only a blog, but also a company: Clipperz Srl was established as an Italian resident limited liability company in November 2005.

The vision

Over the last decade the Internet has proved to be an unprecedented communication tool, dramatically altering both social and professional communications patterns. Nonetheless the advent of the web has made little difference to the way in which we handle private and confidential information.

We got used to trust online services with our data (photos, text documents, spreadsheets, …), but Clipperz proves that this is not necessary: users can enjoy a web based application without the need to trust the web application provider.

Clipperz was founded on the firm belief that security is just another form of intelligence which needs to be built on the edge of the Internet. More specifically, we wanted to design and implement a security architecture within browsers and other terminals used to access the Internet.

Clipperz aims to satisfy the need for confidentiality which is innately present in most human activities.

Our recipe is simple: trasforming the browser into a new ubiquitous “number crunching” platform, capable of executing strong cryptographic algorithms. Clipperz exploits Ajax and browser-based cryptography to build applications that users can wholeheartedly adopt to manage their private data.