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Cypherpunks were activists, programmers and cryptographers who argued in the 1990s that privacy should not only be requested from politicians, but also built with code. Their circles produced many tools and texts about encryption, anonymity and digital freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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