James A. Donald wrote:
That is it. This is the ghost of cypherpunks.
Or maybe its counterpart fossil. As GK Chesterton said about most nominal Christianity in the world in his day - the original had rotted away leaving a space of the same shape and size. Like the impression of a leaf between two layers of mud which harden into stone leaving a fossil that has something of the shape and pattern of the original but none of its content.
Cypherpunks always was a self contradiction - a political group pushing a fundamentally non political attack upon the state, and thus upon the very existence of politics.
Do you really think that politics only exists where there is a state? I'd have thought the opposite is true. Most states actively prevent most people participating in politics. And even the more benign ones relieve people of the responsibility of doing politics - or maybe the realisation that what they are doing *is* politics. Where there is no state everyone is a politician, all the time, and all public acts are overtly political.