ChrisAlaimo on Nostr: “Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not ...
“Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.
Privacy is not secrecy.
A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know.
Privacy is the power to selectively
reveal oneself to the world.”
-Eric Hughes, Cypherpunk Manifesto, March 1993
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