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Why do you want social media and a website?

>>1037381

I like to chat with my friends. Not having any social media is peculiar behavior that can put me on watch lists and is a red flag to current and future employers.

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it? One could pass laws against it, but the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech, and it will not go away merely because we might want it to.

Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages, my provider need not know to whom I am speaking or what I am saying or what others are saying to me; my provider only need know how to get the message there and how much I owe them in fees. When my identity is revealed by the underlying mechanism of the transaction, I have no privacy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must always reveal myself.

Therefore, privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy.

Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography. If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Furthermore, to reveal one's identity with assurance when the default is anonymity requires the cryptographic signature.

We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence. It is to their advantage to speak of us, and we should expect that they will speak. To try to prevent their speech is to fight against the realities of information. Information does not just want to be free, it longs to be free. Information expands to fill the available storage space. Information is Rumor's younger, stronger cousin; Information is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and understands less than Rumor.

We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.

We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.

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. We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down.

Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act. The act of encryption, in fact, removes information from the public realm. Even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its violence. Cryptography will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with it the anonymous transactions systems that it makes possible.

For privacy to be widespread it must be part of a social contract. People must come and together deploy these systems for the common good. Privacy only extends so far as the cooperation of one's fellows in society. We the Cypherpunks seek your questions and your concerns and hope we may engage you so that we do not deceive ourselves. We will not, however, be moved out of our course because some may disagree with our goals.

The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy. Let us proceed together apace.

Onward.

Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>

9 March 1993

>>1037379 (OP)

>I have no reason to hide

>I have nothing to hide!!

Hiding isn't the same as privacy. You aren't hiding in the bathroom when you close the door to have a shower or a shit, that is call privacy, Build transparent plastic or glass walls to your bathroom or go around in public wearing transparent clothing and that is called EXPOSING yourself.

It is incredible how many people say this idiotic nonsense without any thought on the matter at all. Do you carry a clear plastic wallet with all your cash in it and leave it dangling on a thin string around your neck while you go jogging in the ghetto?

I thought you said you have nothing to hide?

Perhaps print out a handy leaflet with your bank account number and pin code on it, then hand it out in the poorest area you can find.

You've either grown up utterly naïve or brainwashed into thinking privacy isn't a human right. Privacy was a human right until the 1990s, Your telephone calls couldn't be listened to, your letters couldn't be intercepted or opened, your medical record couldn't be read by anyone but your doctor and he was forbade on oath from ever speaking about it, with the highest levels of trust structure. All three of those things have been eroded and destroyed and simply accepted by people like you.

You can avoid the botnet by having a computer without an internet connection. If you need the internet, have a second machine.

>having a phone

>>1037383

If you are worried about that kind of thing, they are already in your head.

As soon as you open the doors, all the people around you will fill in the blanks and add photos with your full name, post your location, events you've been to, send chats and posts related to you, your interests and what they think you are thinking about.

If you have to use one, make it on a platform that offers only easily obtainable semi-public information, like linkedin, and never use it for chatting. If someone challenges you, say you have other hobbies to keep you busy and don't need another.

However, if the truth is that you want this stuff, and that's the life you want, just succumb to it and use it, facebook etc and stop worrying. You'll die eventually anyway, do what you like and prioritise the importance of things according to what you want from life, and don't think twice about it.

>I was happier being clueless about my privacy.

The less you know happier you are. Being unhappy is a price you paid in exchange for knowledge about the botnet. Oh, and there is no going back. Once you learn about the botnet you can never go back to not knowing about it. There will always be that one thought at the back of your mind, telling you that you shouldn't use something because there is no source available or you don't have an access to the server.

>I will this privacy threat model by

>privacy threat model

This is exactly what I meant with my previous point. You want to be a clueless normalfag, but you can't. You know too much.

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>>1037379 (OP)

You're cancer, this thread is cancer.

>>1037386

>>1037387

https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html

wat?

>>1037379 (OP)

As I hide CP, the government's surveillance is imperative problem for me. As a result, I usually use Tor Browser and VeraCrypt.