"You can't awaken someone who's pretending to be asleep."
β Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019)
"We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place."
β Eric Hughes (A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 1993)
#privacy #selfdefense #anonymoustransactions
"How can we translate the freedom afforded by the Internet to ordinary life?"
β Jim Bell (Assassination Politics, 1997)
#freedom #internet #cypherpunk
"In one direction lies unprecedented scrutiny and control of people's lives; in the other, secure parity between individuals and organizations. The shape of society in the next century may depend on which approach predominates."
β David Chaum (Security Without Identification: Transaction Systems to Make Big Brother Obsolete, 1985)
#privacy #surveillance
"The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders, and fears of societal disintegration."
β Tim May (The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, 1988)
#government #regulation
"They're abridging the freedom and privacy of all citizensβto defend us against a bogeyman that they will not explain. The decision to literally trade away our privacy is one that must be made by the whole society, not made unilaterally by a military spy agency."
β John Gilmore (Crypto Rebels (WIRED), 1993)
#privacy #freedom #government #nsa #democracy
