Ideologies / Crypto-Anarchist / Eric Hughes
§ The minds · b. 1965 · United States · Cypherpunk
Eric Hughes
A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
Privacy through code.
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Co-founder of the cypherpunks, whose manifesto declared that privacy in the electronic age must be created with cryptography, not granted by governments.
social
Individualist privacy progressive.
economic
Anonymous transaction systems free of intermediaries.
governance
'Privacy is necessary for an open society' — built, not begged.
Notable for
- 'A Cypherpunk's Manifesto'
- Co-founded the cypherpunks
- Anonymous-remailer work
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