"If you have a certain amount of time to spend on advancing the cause of greater personal privacy, can you do it better by using the time to learn about cryptography and develop the tools to protect privacy, or by convincing your government not to invade your privacy?"
— Wei Dai (Cypherpunks mailing list, 1995)
#privacy #cryptography
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