Andy Muller-Maguhn

Cypherpunks advocate for the use of cryptography and similar methods as ways to achieve societal and political change.1 Founded in the early 1990s, the movement has been most active during the 1990s “cryptowars” and following the 2011 internet spring.

The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen.

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

Julian is the author of numerous software projects in line with the cypherpunk philosophy, such as the first TCP/IP port scanner strobe.c, the rubberhose deniable encryption file system, and the original code for WikiLeaks

receive information from whistleblowers, release it to the public, and then defend against the inevitable legal and political attacks

In 2010 WikiLeaks engaged in its most famous publications to date, revealing systematic abuse of official secrecy within the US military and government. These publications are known as Collateral Murder, the War Logs, and Cablegate

To declare things secret means you limit the amount of people who have the knowledge and therefore the ability to affect the process.

Now that said, there was a Facebook-organized protest in 2008 in Cairo. It did surprise the Mubarak government, and as a result these people were tracked down using Facebook.28 In 2011, in a manual which was one of the most important documents used in the Egyptian revolution, the first page says “Do not use Twitter or Facebook” to distribute the manual, and the last page says “Do not use Twitter or Facebook” to distribute the manual.29 Nonetheless, plenty of Egyptians did use Twitter and Facebook. But the reason they survived is because the revolution was successful.

if we built roads the way that we build the internet, every road would have to have surveillance cameras and microphones that no one except the police could access, or someone who has successfully pretended to be the police.

But some people don’t even build roads. They put a garden out there and invite everybody to be naked. So now we’re talking Facebook!