have explored so we want to take an in-depth look and i'm joined now by one of those authors jeremy zimmerman hey jeremy thanks for being on the show talk for say you know this cypherpunk movement i know it's been around for a couple decades now tell me a little bit about the movements mission. well there's a word cypherpunk is a fun cyberpunk which is a science fiction current which describes a world based on information and that predicts the internet in a way and a pun on site cyberpunk and cipher would choose encryption of communication this was the name of the mailing list in the ninety's that was frequented by the most brilliant hackers programmers people we invented the cryptographic tools we are using today and the political notion of encryption and digital technology was. one of the primary source of concerns for the people in this meeting these many many things happened on this maybe. and from what i understand right now already there's a whole lot of buzz around this book because it really raises an important question that i guess jeremy what's your hope for people who read that i m

spoke to one of the co-authors of the book jeremy zimmerman. the technology by itself is neutral and the internet and digital technology could be turned either into the worst totalitarian machine for surveillance and control of the people or into a way of improving ourselves and improving our societies with better democratic participation better access to culture and better sharing of knowledge between individuals much of people being monitored without their knowledge most people don't really know or don't really care that much about their personal data or their privacy because you realize the importance of personal data usually when you lose them but. moment of information that you give away to technical intermediaries of the internet such as google facebook is tremendous and what does agree gates of data will be used for in a few years is impossible to predict there are two zero technologies to protect yourself against snooping against wiretapping of your communications technology is widespread but not used enough you have to learn to use it

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far from comfortable for the public and it's not seen as a coincidence following his apparent jeremy zimmerman was stopped at the airport while leaving the u.s. by two s b o u offices and interrogated about wiki leaks. and jacob appelbaum is no stranger to run ins with your of course not because of his involvement with julian since he represented wiki leaks at the two thousand and ten conference he's been repeatedly targeted agencies goes to court ordered for his twitter account seized a laptop a mobile phones and detained him no fewer than twelve toy the us border and also discussing the future of the internet how it can be safe for individuals and transparent governments and powerful institutions. and the center for investigative journalism gavin month hayden says pushing for transparency is a tough mission and an exclusive interview to explain or deals with having to go through and against governments and corporations. are you surprised with their spouses the husband or the wife leaves them because they can't take the pressure the financial pressure of courts police is very great. unless yo

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