Card III-8: ERIC HUGHES – Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can’t get privacy unless we all do, we’re going to write it.

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Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can’t get privacy unless we all do, we’re going to write it.

ERIC HUGHES · A CYPHERPUNK’S MANIFESTO · 09.03.1993

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Source

“A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto”, 9 March 1993

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About the author

American mathematician and cypherpunk. Author of “A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto”, a foundational text arguing that privacy is essential in the digital age.

About the source

A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto: Eric Hughes’s text of 9 March 1993 on privacy as the basis of an open society.

The question on the back

When did you last build something yourself instead of waiting for others?