What is Cypherpunk?

Many people are familiar with the subculture of hackers or cyberpunks that emerged from the creation of the Internet and progress at information age. Less known are some of the smaller groups that make up a larger Cyberpunk subculture, such as Cypherpunk, which combines the term "cypher" to indicate interest in ciphers and cryptography with punk to indicate some ignoring of the authority. "Cypherpunk" can be interchangeably used to refer to individual activists or overall philosophy. Cypherpunks advocates the use of cryptography as a tool for protection of groups and individuals in a world where personal information has become more easily. Cypherpunks also promotes the use of technology and cryptology as a means to make a political change.

The Cypherpunk movement began as a freely interconnected group at the end of the 80's and early 90s, which communicated primarily through online e -mail lists. It was a severely infleum, which is appointed by a subculture of hackers, growing concerns about personal civil rights andDisturbing consequences of government monitoring. As a result, Cypherpunk movement was one of the first to recognize the growing problem of online privacy. To solve these concerns, Cypherpunks placed great emphasis on the implementation of technology that supports their agenda, such as private encryption for safe anonymous networks, e -mail, web viewing and financial transactions.

Since the beginning of local citizens, the Cypherpunk movement led to create a number of active lawyer groups supporting online privacy. Cypherpunks also help to create and dispersion of software commonly used to provide online anonymity, such as anonymous remakes and peer-to-peer systems. They have been very involved in highly political debates and legal issues regarding the use of cryptography. This had a long -term impact on export and home use of cryptography. Cypherpunks individually and as a group participated in litigation, civil disobedience, professional panels, public debates and in some cases crime.

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Cypherpunk movement is often considered to be a subgroup of a larger cyberpunnel culture. Cypherpunks can also be referred to as Coderpunks, although this term seems to mean less interest in the political and social agenda of the movement. They are usually well educated and achieved when using cryptography and computer programming. Despite the consequences of the term "punk", Cypherpunks cover a wide range of income, ethnic groups and social classes.