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Card III-1: JOHN GILMORE – I want a guarantee – with physics and mathematics, not with laws – that we can give ourselves things like real privacy of personal communications.

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I want a guarantee – with physics and mathematics, not with laws – that we can give ourselves things like real privacy of personal communications.

JOHN GILMORE · THE PRIVATE AND OPEN SOCIETY · 1991

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Source

“The Private and Open Society”, speech at the 1st Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, 28 March 1991 (transcript)

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About the author

Entrepreneur, civil libertarian, and co-founder of the cypherpunks mailing list. A foundational figure in the culture that made Bitcoin possible.

The question on the back

For your privacy, do you rely more on laws or on technology?