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Tell HN: Tim May, Author of “The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto”, Has Died

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Re: Tell HN: Tim May, Author of “The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto”, Has Died

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The end of an age. RIP, Tim. Cypherpunk Movement, leaded by Tim May is an established ideology and movement since the late 80s. At the time, they were the most prominent supporters of individual privacy and digital liberty. It was them, who helped to build the EFF DES cracker to expose the lies of FBI about DES’s security, and forced the U.S government moving to the 128-bit encryption standard. It was them, who succe…

Since post-Snowden, the Cypherpunk Movement somehow became active again, but many are not aware of the history of Cypherpunk. I recommend everyone who is interested in cryptography, privacy and Cypherpunk to read A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto ( https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html ), and The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto ( https://activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html ) for the starter, both are very shor…

Ipfs link[1] for the cyphernomicon.txt[2]

[1] https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmbhG99r1PQGxAhuMMMFnvBiJ1voxBccYxe6QfQ... [2] https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt

Re: Tell HN: Tim May, Author of “The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto”, Has Died

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Do you have related writings or presentations on your hands? If so, could you please publish them online? I'd love to see some details of your critique, especially, what is the problem of Vanguardism?

I wrote up kind of a long reply about the vanguardism issue, but I think I want to sleep on it and see if I can potentially express it more clearly.

Let me know if there's somewhere you'd like me to send or publicize it if I manage to get it cleaned up and decide to publish it.

Re: Tell HN: Tim May, Author of “The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto”, Has Died

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Worth remembering Tim also wrote some violently racist and hateful crap. A sample (there's lots more) "Liquidate the Jew and the negro and most of our problems fade away." https://scruz.general.narkive.com/29QgNUds/commie-rag-praise...

I admire Tim's writing on crypto and what it could do. I deplore his violent racism. They both came together in one person.

Re: Tell HN: Tim May, Author of “The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto”, Has Died

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wrote up kind of a long reply about the vanguardism issue, but I think I want to sleep on it and see if I can potentially express it more clearly.

Let me know if there's somewhere you'd like me to send or publicize it if I manage to get it cleaned up and decide to publish it.

Thanks again! Please mail to https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=0xafb8546e8c884a41ae0c... if you are going to send me something. ;-)
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