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2026-03-27 16:58:34 UTC

"Remember, there are a lot tyrants out there."
— Tim May (CoinDesk, 2018)
#tyranny #warning #freedom

2026-03-25 02:29:27 UTC

"There is nothing quite so disempowering as a government that can read all your most intimate thoughts and correspondence."
— Philip Zimmermann (Why I Wrote PGP, 1991)
#surveillance #government #privacy

2026-03-24 17:02:06 UTC

"Some have predicted that the initial success of electronic money may be in the form of a technically illegal 'black market' where crypto-hackers buy and sell information, using cryptography to protect against government crackdowns."
— Hal Finney (Protecting privacy with electronic cash, 1993)
#digitalcash #cryptography #resistance

2026-03-23 09:00:38 UTC

"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

2026-03-23 02:32:33 UTC

"End-to-end encryption should be the default for all communication."
— Moxie Marlinspike (Signal blog, 2016)
#encryption #privacy

2026-03-21 16:33:45 UTC

"The cypherpunks were troublemakers: controversial, radical, unrelenting, but also practical. They made things."
— Jamie Bartlett (Cypherpunks Write Code, American Scientist)
#cypherpunk #code

2026-03-20 16:49:23 UTC

"By understanding that cypherpunk theory and practice each consist of two complementary dynamics—privacy/transparency, pro-active/re-active—it becomes possible to understand that the cypherpunk movement provides the basis for activists and citizens to resist large surveillance institutions."
— Patrick D. Anderson (Of Cypherpunks and Sousveillance, 2022)
#cypherpunk #privacy #transparency #resistance #surveillance

2026-03-20 08:45:57 UTC

"The law enforcement folks were stuck longer in the hard-core phase, and still are, even now using Bin Laden to suggest that crypto has GONE TOO FAR, damn it."
— Steven Levy (The WELL - Crypto Discussion, 2001)
#lawenforcement #cryptography #government #terrorism

2026-03-20 02:24:15 UTC

"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

2026-01-04 16:27:50 UTC

"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