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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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> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=a+psychopunk%27s+manifesto+by+eric+hughes+1993
>>...
>>https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html
>>A Psychopunk's Manifesto
>>by Eric Hughes
>>ftp://soda.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/people/hughes.html
>>...
>>Eric Hughes
>>9 March 1993
> [end quoted excerpts]
>
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