"Crypto-anarchists have largely built the digital world we see around us today: public-private key encryption, digital signatures, and crypto-currencies ..."
would have loved to read more about that because I know so little about it (Assange stems from a crypto anarchist group out of Melbourne, doesn't he?) but important post regardless.
Crypto-anarchism is super fascinating. This was only a short email to my email list that I re-posted here, so I wasn't going to go into a bunch of details.
If you're interested in learning more, I'd recommend Timothy May's book, "Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias," in addition to "Crypto" by Steven Levy. In the former, May lays out what is to come in the digital realm and in the latter, Levy goes through the history of encryption/cryptography, up until the mid 2000's. Fascinating stuff.
Yes, Assange is most certainly a crypto-anarchist.
Thanks for checking out the post and for commenting!
Thank you for commenting back and the recommendations!