A Cypherpunk's Manifesto

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto Back to activism.net/cypherpunk/ A Cypherpunk's Manifesto by Eric Hughes Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. 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? One could pass laws against it, but the

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related reading

• cdn.nakamotoinstitute.org/docs/cypherpunk-manifesto.txtcdn.nakamotoinstitute.org
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace | Electronic Frontier Foundationeff.org
• moral-fn.pdfweb.cs.ucdavis.edu
• The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen Horowitza16z.com
• The Crypto Anarchist Manifestoactivism.net
• The Crypto Anarchist Manifestogroups.csail.mit.edu
• True Nyms and Crypto Anarchygwern.net
• https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.htmlphilzimmermann.com
• Resonant Computing Manifestoresonantcomputing.org
• Andrej Karpathy on X: "I wrote a quick new post on "Digital Hygiene". Basically there are some no-brainer decisions you can make in your life to dramatically improve the privacy and security of your computing and this post goes over some of them. Blog post link in the reply, but copy pasting below https://t.co/gRyeVouko5" / Xx.com
• Big data may not know your name, but it knows everything elsenews.ycombinator.com
• It Is Time to Move Beyond End-to-End Encryptionarvid.xyz