Cypherpunks Begat WikiLeaks
The Assange Show on RT tonight, June 5, covers Cypherpunks as source of WikiLeaks: http://www.rt.com/news/julian-assange-internet-war-cypherpunk-989/ RT blurb: -Cypherpunks is a movement originating from Cypherpunks Electronic Mailing List, which was set up by activists aiming to improve Internet privacy and security through proactive use of cryptography. The movement has been active since the late 1980s. WikiLeaks is one of the many projects derived from Cypherpunks. A furious invisible war over our society is underway. Finer technologies to collect netizens private data pop up every week and what now exactly is private? Julian Assange asks his Cypherpunk guests: is the worlds future tied to the Internet? -WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, gets back in touch with the Cypherpunks movement to discuss the unseen battlefield the Internet: how cyber wars are no longer a sheer paranoid fantasy, how your life turns into goods sold at the market, why a math problem is not exactly a problem when private data is concerned and what the best antidote is to political storytelling. "A furious invisible war" is no longer a poetic comparison, you will find out, and this is a battle in your backyard.
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John Young