5/ Borsook warned that “cypherpunk” paranoia about government intrusion was leading them to create “a society where there is ever more surveillance and computer-retrievable information about people's private lives.”
Sound familiar?
Sound familiar?
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
5/ Borsook warned that “cypherpunk” paranoia about government intrusion was leading them to create “a society where there is ever more surveillance and computer-retrievable information about people's private lives.”
Sound familiar?
Sound familiar?
the early cypherpunk meme about how technology is untouchable/untouched by governments was foolishness, especially around the time it got packaged as consumer marketing
me 🤝 Proton's comms person
explaining that you cannot simply decide a court order doesn't apply to you just because you don't like it
explaining that you cannot simply decide a court order doesn't apply to you just because you don't like it
You are mistaken, we do not respond to legal requests from anywhere other than the Swiss authorities.
It is unlikely that one could build a business through ignoring the laws of the jurisdiction that it is in. The mail provider you're moving to included.
It is unlikely that one could build a business through ignoring the laws of the jurisdiction that it is in. The mail provider you're moving to included.
March 8, 2026 at 4:57 PM
the early cypherpunk meme about how technology is untouchable/untouched by governments was foolishness, especially around the time it got packaged as consumer marketing
if you read the old cypherpunk stuff from the 1990s and early 2000s, they are incredibly clear that the entire point of cryptocurrency is to collapse the American financial system and then the government so that billionaires can rule
December 17, 2024 at 4:01 AM
if you read the old cypherpunk stuff from the 1990s and early 2000s, they are incredibly clear that the entire point of cryptocurrency is to collapse the American financial system and then the government so that billionaires can rule
werde jetzt so 90er jahre cypherpunk libertär
February 9, 2026 at 5:34 PM
werde jetzt so 90er jahre cypherpunk libertär
CypherPUNK is not dead!
September 23, 2026 at 1:34 PM
CypherPUNK is not dead!
July 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Don’t stand there watching me, follow me, show me what you can do 🤖🖤
📷 @rubberruru.bsky.social
#latexdrone #rubberdrone #latexinpublic #latexphotography #cypherpunk
📷 @rubberruru.bsky.social
#latexdrone #rubberdrone #latexinpublic #latexphotography #cypherpunk
December 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Don’t stand there watching me, follow me, show me what you can do 🤖🖤
📷 @rubberruru.bsky.social
#latexdrone #rubberdrone #latexinpublic #latexphotography #cypherpunk
📷 @rubberruru.bsky.social
#latexdrone #rubberdrone #latexinpublic #latexphotography #cypherpunk
I've been talking to my grandma on Signal for years and now, by her request, helped to her delete Facebook. Cypherpunk AF.
January 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I've been talking to my grandma on Signal for years and now, by her request, helped to her delete Facebook. Cypherpunk AF.
I mean, maybe this is my inner cypherpunk, but I genuinely do believe people will always find a way to get at the real information
The next election is going to be a real-time stress test of Media Environment vs. Material Conditions.
Was working on stuff and basically missed the whole Jimmy Kimmel news cycle. It reminds us. With the exception of the Times (which doesn't own a bunch of other vulnerable properties), msnbc and a few others, all the news/media outlets are owned by the white house now.
September 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I mean, maybe this is my inner cypherpunk, but I genuinely do believe people will always find a way to get at the real information
Very long ago, you could often log into web sites and services with username "cypherpunk" and password "cypherpunk". It was a Thing to register accounts like that for others to use.
January 3, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Very long ago, you could often log into web sites and services with username "cypherpunk" and password "cypherpunk". It was a Thing to register accounts like that for others to use.
Germ has received a Cypherpunk Fellowship for our open-source contributions to Messaging Layer Security.
Many thanks to @protocollabs.bsky.social and @web3privacy.info for the support.
Check out our full announcement:
www.germnetwork.com/blog/germ-cy...
Many thanks to @protocollabs.bsky.social and @web3privacy.info for the support.
Check out our full announcement:
www.germnetwork.com/blog/germ-cy...
Germ Wins a Cypherpunk Fellowship from Protocol Labs for Our Open-Source Contributions to MLS — Germ Network
We’re excited to share that Germ was awarded a Cypherpunk Fellowship to complete a portion of our open-source work extending the IETF end-to-end encryption standard Messaging Layer Security for decent...
www.germnetwork.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Germ has received a Cypherpunk Fellowship for our open-source contributions to Messaging Layer Security.
Many thanks to @protocollabs.bsky.social and @web3privacy.info for the support.
Check out our full announcement:
www.germnetwork.com/blog/germ-cy...
Many thanks to @protocollabs.bsky.social and @web3privacy.info for the support.
Check out our full announcement:
www.germnetwork.com/blog/germ-cy...
*Looks like the difference between an OG cypherpunk and a "Neo-Cypherpunk" is that the neo ones are European and in Berlin
s26ber.web3privacy.info
s26ber.web3privacy.info
Neocypherpunk Summit #1
14 Jun 2026 - 2025 was an exceptional year: 10000 people, 130 speakers from Eva Galperin (EFF) to Roger Dingledine (Tor) speaking. We decided to make a sequel and strengthen Cypherpunk activism, cultu...
s26ber.web3privacy.info
April 23, 2026 at 10:06 AM
*Looks like the difference between an OG cypherpunk and a "Neo-Cypherpunk" is that the neo ones are European and in Berlin
s26ber.web3privacy.info
s26ber.web3privacy.info
A 'must read'.
"...there's no such thing as "age verification" for the internet. What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance, so invasive and pervasive that it makes the ad-tech industry's commercial surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia."
"...there's no such thing as "age verification" for the internet. What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance, so invasive and pervasive that it makes the ad-tech industry's commercial surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia."
The literature on harms to kids from online platforms is complex and nuanced, rife with people citing small, ambiguous studies as iron-clad evidence that kids are being destroyed by the internet:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ype6...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ype6...
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June 23, 2026 at 9:30 PM
A 'must read'.
"...there's no such thing as "age verification" for the internet. What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance, so invasive and pervasive that it makes the ad-tech industry's commercial surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia."
"...there's no such thing as "age verification" for the internet. What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance, so invasive and pervasive that it makes the ad-tech industry's commercial surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia."
Sharing a short writeup from a 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat, featuring our #eurosky project and the work of our friends at @germnetwork.com, among others: www.protocol.ai/blog/threads...
Threads From the 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat
Key takeaways from the Cypherpunk Retreat, where 100 leading builders advanced privacy-tech coordination.
www.protocol.ai
October 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Sharing a short writeup from a 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat, featuring our #eurosky project and the work of our friends at @germnetwork.com, among others: www.protocol.ai/blog/threads...
cypherpunk polycule diagram
October 16, 2023 at 6:26 PM
cypherpunk polycule diagram
How can Ethereum embrace cypherpunk values?
Fireside chat between @vitalik.ca & @scbuergel.bsky.social during Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress in Bangkok.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJR6...
#privacy #decentralization #cypherpunk #freesoftware #culture
Fireside chat between @vitalik.ca & @scbuergel.bsky.social during Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress in Bangkok.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJR6...
#privacy #decentralization #cypherpunk #freesoftware #culture
Vitalik Buterin & Sebastian Bürgel Fireside Chat @ Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress
YouTube video by Web3Privacy Now
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2024 at 8:56 AM
How can Ethereum embrace cypherpunk values?
Fireside chat between @vitalik.ca & @scbuergel.bsky.social during Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress in Bangkok.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJR6...
#privacy #decentralization #cypherpunk #freesoftware #culture
Fireside chat between @vitalik.ca & @scbuergel.bsky.social during Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress in Bangkok.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJR6...
#privacy #decentralization #cypherpunk #freesoftware #culture
“Definition of Cypherpunk”: Technologist, Privacy Activist Kevin Gallagher Passes Away (2021) -- his birthday was June 5
unicornriot.ninja/2021/definit...
unicornriot.ninja/2021/definit...
"Definition of Cypherpunk": Technologist, Privacy Activist Kevin Gallagher Passes Away - UNICORN RIOT
San Francisco, CA – In a shock sweeping the Internet freedom community, technologist, security expert and organizer Kevin Michael Gallagher was discovered deceased in his San Francisco apartment on Ju...
unicornriot.ninja
June 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
“Definition of Cypherpunk”: Technologist, Privacy Activist Kevin Gallagher Passes Away (2021) -- his birthday was June 5
unicornriot.ninja/2021/definit...
unicornriot.ninja/2021/definit...
This conflation of 'cypherpunk' and centralized cloud-pushers sure does reflect a truly incredible degree of ahistorical brainworms
Bro, the state isn't going to fuck you
Bro, the state isn't going to fuck you
September 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This conflation of 'cypherpunk' and centralized cloud-pushers sure does reflect a truly incredible degree of ahistorical brainworms
Bro, the state isn't going to fuck you
Bro, the state isn't going to fuck you
Anyone else old enough to remember setting accounts w username/password cypherpunk/ cypherpunk?
September 20, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Anyone else old enough to remember setting accounts w username/password cypherpunk/ cypherpunk?
Cypherpunk. Five eyes. Whatever.
January 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Cypherpunk. Five eyes. Whatever.
other good cypherpunk dirt: SO much drama around naked hot tubbing and "stealing" of girlfriends. northern california nerds, man
April 9, 2026 at 2:00 AM
other good cypherpunk dirt: SO much drama around naked hot tubbing and "stealing" of girlfriends. northern california nerds, man
He prob thinks cypherpunk is a typo.
March 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
He prob thinks cypherpunk is a typo.
#TalDíaComoHoy en 1939, nace Jude Milhon. Más conocida por el nick de Saint Jude, es la madre del cypherpunk. Programadora, hacker, escritora, feminista, rebelde, defensora de los ciberderechos.
Suya es la famosa frase "Girls need modems!" #WomenInSTEM
Suya es la famosa frase "Girls need modems!" #WomenInSTEM
March 12, 2026 at 6:09 AM
#TalDíaComoHoy en 1939, nace Jude Milhon. Más conocida por el nick de Saint Jude, es la madre del cypherpunk. Programadora, hacker, escritora, feminista, rebelde, defensora de los ciberderechos.
Suya es la famosa frase "Girls need modems!" #WomenInSTEM
Suya es la famosa frase "Girls need modems!" #WomenInSTEM
No es por ser mejor que nadie ni nada, pero los que estábamos en los círculos cypherpunk en los 90 tenemos que escuchar a los que hasta antes de ayer eran fanboys de Tesla/Apple/Meta/Google darnos lecciones de “tecno fascismo”. Y oye. La ternura.
January 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
No es por ser mejor que nadie ni nada, pero los que estábamos en los círculos cypherpunk en los 90 tenemos que escuchar a los que hasta antes de ayer eran fanboys de Tesla/Apple/Meta/Google darnos lecciones de “tecno fascismo”. Y oye. La ternura.
“there's no such thing as "age verification" for the internet. What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance, so invasive and pervasive that it makes the ad-tech industry's commercial surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia”
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/d...
#Pluralistic
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Inside: Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/d...
#Pluralistic
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June 23, 2026 at 8:29 PM
“there's no such thing as "age verification" for the internet. What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance, so invasive and pervasive that it makes the ad-tech industry's commercial surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia”