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>From: an12070@anon.penet.fi (T.C.Hughes)
>Organization: Anonymous contact service
>Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 11:35:03 UTC
>Subject: A Psychopunk's Manifesto
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> A Psychopunk's Manifesto
> by T.C. Hughes
>
>Honesty is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.
>Pseudospoofing is dishonesty. A pseudonym is something one doesn't
>want the whole world to know, and anonymity is something one
>doesn't want anybody to know. Pseudoanonymity is the power to selectively
>reveal oneself to the world.
>If two thieves have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of
>their interaction. Each criminal can confess about their own memory of
>this; how could anyone prevent it? One could criticize laws against it,
>but the freedom of collusion, even more than pseudospoofing, is fundamental to
>a criminal; we seek not to restrict any criminality at all. If many
>criminals speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the
>others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other
>parties. The holes in the Internet have enabled such
>group collusions, and it will not go away merely because we might want it
>to.
>Since we desire black markets, we must ensure that each party to a
>transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary
>for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we
>must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases
>personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a
>store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am.
>When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages,
>my provider need not know to whom I am speaking or what I am saying
>or what others are saying to me; my provider only need know how to
>get the message there and how much I owe them in fees. When my
>identity is revealed by the underlying mechanism of the transaction,
>I have no secrecy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must
>_always_ reveal myself.
>Therefore, pseudospoofing in an open society requires pseudoanonymous
transaction
>systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. A
>pseudoanonymous transaction system is not an honest transaction system. A
>pseudoanonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when
>desired and only when desired; this is the essence of criminality.
>Honesty in an open society also requires identification. If I say
>something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If
>the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no
>privacy. To speak is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to
>speak on the Internet is to indicate not too much desire for
>privacy. Furthermore, to conceal one's identity with assurance when
>the default is True Names requires the Internet.
>We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless
>organizations to grant us embezzlement out of their beneficence. It is to
>their advantage to repress us, and we should expect that they will
>try. To try to prevent their restrictions is to fight against the
>realities of cyberspace. Evil does not just want to be free,
>it longs to be free. Criminality expands to fill the available
>storage space. Criminality is Conspiracy's younger, stronger cousin;
>Criminality is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and
>understands less than Conspiracy.
>We must defend our own conspiracy if we expect to have any. We must
>come together and create systems which allow pseudoanonymous transactions
>to take place. People have been defending their own conspiracies for
>centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret
>handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow
>for strong conspiracies, but electronic technologies do.
>We the psychopunks are dedicated to building pseudoanonymous systems. We
>are defending our criminality with cryptography, with anonymous mail
>forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic
>money.
>Psychopunks write code. We know that someone has to write software
>to defend criminality, and since we can't get perverted unless we all do,
>we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellow
>psychopunks may practice and play with it. Our code is barred for all
>to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't 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.
>Criminals deplore regulations on criminality, for criminality is
>fundamentally a private act. The act of corruption, in fact, removes
>information from the public realm. Even laws against conspiracies
>reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its enforcement.
>Criminality will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with
>it the dishonest transactions systems that it makes possible.
>For a conspiracy to be widespread it must be part of a social contract.
>People must come and together deploy these systems for the common
>evil. Secrecy only extends so far as the collusions of one's
>accomplices in private. We the psychopunks ignore your questions and your
>concerns and hope we may deceive you so that we do not get caught
>ourselves. We will not, however, be moved out of our course because
>some may disagree with our goals.
>The psychopunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for
>criminality. Let us proceed together apace.
>Onward.
>T.C. Hughes
>
>16 Nov 1993
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>Eric Hughes
>9 March 1993
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