While the syllogism for "I have nothing to hide" is sound, it ultimately detracts from the argument of privacy as consent.

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The Best Version of "I Have Nothing to Hide"

While the syllogism for "I have nothing to hide" is sound, it ultimately detracts from the argument of privacy as consent.

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> With the second iOS 26.4 beta, Apple and Google have started testing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages exchanged between iPhone and Android users.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/23/ios-26-4-beta-2-android-iphone-e2ee/

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iOS 26.4 Beta Adds End-to-End Encryption for iPhone-to-Android RCS Texts

With the second iOS 26.4 beta, Apple and Google have started testing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages exchanged between iPhone and...

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@riley @stman @mmu_man @vidak @theruran @50htz @forthy42 @oceane @nobody, well we need to #Cypherpunk HARDER!

"The cypherpunks were troublemakers: controversial, radical, unrelenting, but also practical. They made things."

— Jamie Bartlett (Cypherpunks Write Code, American Scientist)

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Cypherpunks Write Code

What happens in this virtual world—the Dark Net—and why?

American Scientist

"Privacy is the power to selectively reveal yourself."
-Cypherpunk Manifesto

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Un Manifiesto Cypherpunk
por Eric Hughes

La privacidad es necesaria para una sociedad abierta en la era electrónica.
La privacidad no es el secreto. Un asunto privado es algo que uno no quiere que todo el mundo sepa, pero un asunto secreto es algo que uno no quiere que nadie sepa. La privacidad es el poder de revelarse selectivamente ante el mundo.

Si dos partes tienen algún tipo de trato, entonces cada una conserva un recuerdo de su interacción. Cada parte puede hablar sobre su propio recuerdo de esto; ¿cómo podría alguien impedirlo? Podrían promulgarse leyes en su contra, pero la libertad de expresión, incluso más que la privacidad, es fundamental para una sociedad abierta; no buscamos restringir ningún tipo de expresión. Si muchas partes hablan juntas en el mismo foro, cada una puede hablar con todas las demás y, en conjunto, agregar conocimiento sobre individuos y otras partes. El poder de las comunicaciones electrónicas ha hecho posible ese discurso colectivo, y no desaparecerá simplemente porque nos gustaría que lo hiciera.

Dado que deseamos privacidad, debemos asegurarnos de que cada parte en una transacción conozca solo aquello que es directamente necesario para dicha transacción. Dado que cualquier información puede ser comunicada, debemos asegurarnos de revelar lo menos posible. En la mayoría de los casos, la identidad personal no es relevante. Cuando compro una revista en una tienda y entrego dinero en efectivo al dependiente, no hay necesidad de que sepa quién soy. Cuando le pido a mi proveedor de correo electrónico que envíe y reciba mensajes, mi proveedor no necesita saber con quién estoy hablando ni qué estoy diciendo ni qué otros me dicen a mí; solo necesita saber cómo hacer llegar el mensaje y cuánto le debo en tarifas. Cuando mi identidad es revelada por el mecanismo subyacente de la transacción, no tengo privacidad. No puedo aquí revelarme selectivamente;

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A Cypherpunk's Manifesto by Eric Hughes

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. If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it? One could pass laws against it, but the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech, and it will not go away merely because we might want it to. Since we desire privacy, 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 privacy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must _always_ reveal myself. Therefore, privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret

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I can no longer make an account with google. If I want to contribute on github I need to go to the phone store to make a google account through the android interface. They've even disabled the half-broken ways of creating sock accounts. Two step verification is horse shit and github can go make love to themselves for deleting my proton alias account.

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VeraCrypt - Free Open source disk encryption with strong security for the Paranoid

VeraCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In case an attacker forces you to reveal the password, VeraCrypt provides plausible deniability. In contrast to file encryption, data encryption performed by VeraCrypt is real-time (on-the-fly), automatic, transparent, needs very little memory, and does not involve temporary unencrypted files.