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Card III-11: TIMOTHY C. MAY – The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns … But this will not halt the spread of crypto anarchy.

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The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns … But this will not halt the spread of crypto anarchy.

TIMOTHY C. MAY · CRYPTO ANARCHIST MANIFESTO · 1988

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Source

“The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto” (1988), posted to the Cypherpunks mailing list, 22 November 1992 (abridged)

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About the author

American physicist and Intel engineer (1951–2018). Co-founder of the Cypherpunks mailing list and author of “The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto”.

About the source

The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto: Tim May’s 1988 text, handed out at Crypto ’88 and posted to the Cypherpunks list in 1992.

The question on the back

What happens to an idea when someone tries to ban it?