In 1993, before most people had ever touched the web, a mathematician named Eric Hughes wrote a line that predicted your whole future: "#Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age." He wasn't talking about hiding. He was talking about choice. The right to reveal yourself to the world on your own terms, and to reveal nothing when you choose nothing. His answer wasn't a law or a protest. It was code. Hughes and a small group of cryptographers understood you couldn't ask gover...
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In 1993, before most people had ever touched the web, a mathematician named Eric Hughes wrote a line that predicted your whole future: "Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age."
He wasn't talking about hiding. He was talking about…
He wasn't talking about hiding. He was talking about…