From: Juan <juan.g71@gmail.com> On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 19:19:38 -0400 Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net> wrote:
On 07/22/2015 06:03 PM, Juan wrote:
The cypherpunks formed a house of many rooms. The only thing they all shared was an understanding of the political significance of cryptography and the willingness to fight for privacy and unfettered freedom in cyberspace.
A flawed understanding it seems.
Oi, group identity in any anarchist-friendly venue can't be enforced by any kind of coercive authority, else it is not an anarchist-friendly venue. Fighting over the definition of the group is only fun until somebody wins.
What I meant is that cypherpunks seem to put too much emphasis on the political benefits and 'significance' of crypto when in reality crypto doesn't really solve political problems.
Not yet, anyway. Jim Bell