"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world."
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excerpt from A Cypherpunk's Manifesto,
Eric Hughes,
March 9, 1993
-- excerpt from A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, Eric Hughes, March 9, 1993