“We Were Inhumane”
If you head to Bletchley Park – home of the original Cypherpunks – you will see a posthumous apology (from former PM Gordon Brown) to war hero and father of modern computing – Alan Turing – for the abhorrent and inhumane treatment he faced at the hands of government, which led to his suicide.
The Cypherpunk Manifesto: Defending Privacy in the Digital Age
In 1992, a group of privacy activists came together to write the Cypherpunk Manifesto, a call to arms for the right to privacy in an increasingly digital world. The manifesto opens with a bold statement: “Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something […]