Cypherpunk Quotes on Nostr: "There is nothing quite so disempowering as a government that can read all your most ...
"There is nothing quite so disempowering as a government that can read all your most intimate thoughts and correspondence."
— Philip Zimmermann (Why I Wrote PGP, 1991)
#surveillance #government #privacy
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