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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. -
1993
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Cypherpunks will make the networks
safe for privacy. - 1993
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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 don't much care if
you 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. - 1993
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You could join a collective to
purchase some information and decrease your actual cost
by orders of magnitude - that is, until it is almost
free. [A digital co-op could form a private online
library and collectively purchase digital movies, albums,
software, and expensive newsletters, which they would
"lend" to each other over the Net] ...
increasing the margins where the poor can survive. -
1994
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How large can the flow of money on
the nets get before the government requires reporting of
every small transaction? Because if the flows can get
large enough, past some threshold, then there might be
enough aggregate money to provide an economic incentive
for transnational service to issue money, and it
wouldn't matter what one government does ... It might
also be the case that anonymous money will be the only
kind of money. - 1994
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