Cypher Punk Manifesto

http://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html

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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.

See also http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?CypherPunk.