"Even more than monetary gain, personal data bestows power on those who collect and analyse it, and that is what makes it so coveted." — Carissa Véliz (Privacy is power (Aeon), 2019) #data #power #surveillance #privacy

"Most people are unaware of how visible email is. Email could be intercepted by a lot of parties along the way, it could be captured and logged, scanned and then used years later." — Philip Zimmermann (GrepLaw, 2003) #email #surveillance #privacy #interception

"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

"Privacy gives each of us more control over his own life—which on average, if not in every case, is likely to lead to a freer world." — David D. Friedman (The Case for Privacy, 2005) #cypherpunk #bitcoin #privacy #freedom #control

"Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer.'" — Richard Stallman (GNU Project, 1985) #cypherpunk #bitcoin #privacy #freedom #free-software #liberty #open-source

"What if everyone believed that law-abiding citizens should use postcards for their mail? If a nonconformist tried to assert his privacy by using an envelope, it would draw suspicion." — Philip Zimmermann (Why I Wrote PGP, 1991) #cypherpunk #bitcoin #privacy #freedom #encryption #conformity

"I am fascinated by Tim May's crypto-anarchy. Unlike the communities traditionally associated with the word 'anarchy', in a crypto-anarchy the government is not temporarily destroyed but permanently forbidden and permanently unnecessary." — Wei Dai (b-money proposal, 1998) #cypherpunk #bitcoin #privacy #freedom #crypto-anarchy #b-money #governance

"Pretty Good Privacy empowers people to take their privacy into their own hands. There has been a growing social need for it." — Philip Zimmermann (Why I Wrote PGP, 1991) #cypherpunk #bitcoin #privacy #freedom #pgp #empowerment

"Digital signatures using public-key cryptosystems provide verification of both integrity and authenticity of messages." — Ralph Merkle (Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key Systems, 1979) #cypherpunk #bitcoin #privacy #freedom #digital-signatures #cryptography #authentication

"Anyone who says they have a system that's perfectly secure from attackers is lying." — Cory Doctorow (Little Brother, 2008) #cypherpunk #bitcoin #privacy #freedom #security #hacking #truth

"A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy." — Tim May (The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, 1988) #cypherpunk #bitcoin #privacy #freedom #crypto-anarchy #manifesto