"There is a war going on between those who would liberate crypto and those who would suppress it. The seemingly innocuous bunch strewn around this conference room represents the vanguard of the pro-crypto forces."
— Steven Levy (Crypto Rebels (WIRED), 1993)
#cryptography #cypherpunk #resistance #government
"We need to make cryptography the solution to the problem: 'how do you make surveillance more expensive?'"
— Phillip Rogaway (The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work, 2015)
#cryptography #surveillance #resistance
"Bitcoin isn't just money for the internet. It's a new form of money that is native to the internet."
— Andreas Antonopoulos (Mastering Bitcoin, 2014)
#bitcoin #internet #money
"Cryptography can make possible a world in which people have control over information about themselves, not because government has granted them that control, but because only they possess the cryptographic keys to reveal that information. This is the world we are working to create."
— Hal Finney (Protecting privacy with electronic cash, 1993)
#cryptography #privacy #government
"A phase change is coming. Virtual communities are in their ascendancy, displacing conventional notions of nationhood. Geographic proximity is no longer as important as it once was."
— Tim May (Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities, 1994)
"Security is a process, not a product."
— Bruce Schneier (Secrets and Lies, 2000)
#security
"Cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people."
— Whitfield Diffie (ITAS Interview, 1992)
#cryptography #trust #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
"The scandal isn't how they're breaking the law. The scandal is that they don't have to break the law."
— Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019)
#surveillance #law #government #legal
"Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind."
— John Perry Barlow (A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, 1996)
#cyberspace #independence #government
"The ecosystem is moving towards consolidation because users don't want to run their own servers."
— Moxie Marlinspike (My First Impressions of Web3, 2022)
#decentralization
"The cypherpunk movement provides an intelligible, viable, and effective model of data activism and strategic agency."
— Patrick D. Anderson (Of Cypherpunks and Sousveillance, 2022)
#cypherpunk #dataactivism #resistance #agency
"It's not data that's being exploited. It's people that are being exploited. It's not data that's being manipulated, it's you that's being manipulated."
— Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019)
#surveillance #privacy
"You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts."
— John Perry Barlow (A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, 1996)
#government #regulation #cyberspace
"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."
— Tim May (The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, 1988)
#government #regulation
"Cryptography rearranges power: it configures who can do what, from what. This makes cryptography an inherently political tool, and it confers on the field an intrinsically moral dimension."
— Phillip Rogaway (The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work, 2015)
#cryptography #politics
"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."
— Eric Hughes (A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 1993)
#privacy #secrecy
"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."
— Tim May (The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, 1988)
#government #regulation
"The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting."
— Edward Snowden (The Guardian Interview, 2013)
#nsa #surveillance #masssurveillance
"Digital cash, untraceable and anonymous (like real cash), is also coming, though various technical and practical hurdles remain."
— Tim May (Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities, 1994)
#digitalcash #anonymity #privacy
