Parallel Polis @parallelpolis.info · Dec 11 4/ May wrote: "Just as printing altered the power of medieval guilds, cryptologic methods will fundamentally alter the nature of corporations and government interference in economic transactions". Mathematics becomes "the wire clippers which dismantle the barbed wire around intellectual property".
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5/ This led to the Cypherpunks movement (1992). Founded by May, Eric Hughes, and Hugh Daniel, it became "perhaps the single most effective pro-cryptography grassroots organization in history". Members included a young Julian Assange. Their motto: "Cypherpunks write code"