"The people in this room hope for a world where an individual's informational footprints—everything from an opinion on abortion to the medical record of an actual abortion—can be traced only if the individual involved chooses to reveal them; a world where coherent messages shoot around the globe by network and microwave, but intruders and feds trying to pluck them out of the vapor find only gibberish."
— Steven Levy (Crypto Rebels (WIRED), 1993)
#privacy #cypherpunk #encryption #freedom
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