Jacob Appelbaum

Cypherpunks advocate for the use of cryptography and similar methods as ways to achieve societal and political change.1 Founded in the early 1990s, the movement has been most active during the 1990s “cryptowars” and following the 2011 internet spring.

The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen.

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.