Privacy is your power to decide which fragments of your soul you expose to the world, in whose hands you place them, under what sky you release them. Privacy is a refuge where you can hide your wounds, where you can guard your words like bullets in reserve. Privacy is…
It’s 2013. The director of the FBI gives a speech titled The Going Dark Problem. Solemnly he warns of an emerging crisis within law enforcement. Since the Snowden disclosures, increasing public awareness of surveillance has encouraged the wide ranging use of encryption technologies – what he calls the tech tool of…
Science fiction is a speculative exercise. By speculating on possible futures, sci-fi expands the space of possibilities. Crypto is an extreme kind of sci-fi because as well as offering a vision of the future it also provides the tools to make that future possible. Crypto is currently energized by a…
by John Perry Barlow – 1996 https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You…
Over the last 50 years, the people of the developed world have begun to cross into a landscape unlike any which humanity has experienced before. It is a region without physical shape or form. It exists, like a standing wave, in the vast web of our electronic communication systems. It consists of electron states, microwaves, magnetic fields, light pulses and thought itself.
By Timothy C. May – 1988 The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto “A Specter Is Haunting The Modern World, The Specter Of Crypto Anarchy. Computer technology is on the verge of providing the ability for individuals and groups to communicate and interact with each other in a totally anonymous manner. Two persons…
By Eric Hughes – 1993 The CypherPunks Manifesto “Privacy Is The Power To Selectively Reveal Oneself To The World.” “If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it?…
In 1994, Timothy May , one of the leading thinkers of the cypherpunk movement , wrote the Cyphernomicon , a lengthy document that compiled and structured fundamental ideas about privacy, cryptography , anonymity, cryptoanarchism , and the impact of technology on individual freedom. This text, which takes the form of a kind of FAQ (frequently asked questions), became an obligatory…
A critical analysis of an unjust system Money, that seemingly neutral tool that facilitates the exchange of value between individuals, is actually a social construct that entirely depends on collective agreement. Its value does not come from the intrinsic quality of the paper, gold, or bytes that make it up,…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a nonprofit organization that has been a cornerstone in defending digital rights since its founding in 1990. Its mission is to protect privacy, freedom of expression, and access to information in the digital realm, covering legal issues and technological projects that empower users. In…
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