"That's why our primary defense isn't law, but technology." — Julian Assange (Forbes, 2010) #law #defense #wikileaks

"Building security from day one is much easier than adding it on as an afterthought." — Martin Hellman (Charles Babbage Institute Oral History, 2004) #security

"Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live." — John Perry Barlow (A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, 1996) #cypherpunk #bitcoin #privacy #freedom #cyberspace #philosophy #digitalworld

"Trusted third parties are security holes." — Nick Szabo (Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes, 2001) #cypherpunk #bitcoin #privacy #freedom #security #trust #decentralization