Moxie Marlinspike

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Moxie Marlinspike: Anarchist, Privacy Advocate

Born on May 1, 1977, Moxie Marlinspike is an American computer security researcher and anarchist. His real name remains unknown. Marlinspike is the creator of Signal, a secure messaging application, and founder of the open-source project OpenWhisperSystems.

Marlinspike's belief in anarchism and commitment to privacy have contributed to his role in shaping the fellow anarchists. He advocates for strong cryptographic privacy protections and has given multiple lectures on the subject. He introduced 'Internet Noise', which generated random web traffic as a form of protest against internet surveillance. His creation, Signal, widely considered one of the most secure ways to communicate digitally, is a testament to Marlinspike's commitment to the principles of anarchism and privacy.

Date of Birth: 1977-05-01

Country of Birth: United States

Political Ideas: Anarchism, Privacy

Quotes Available: 9

Quotes by Moxie Marlinspike

By providing the illusion of participation for everyone, democracy allows majorities to justify their actions, no matter how oppressive.

Voting strongly resembles the capitalist economic system that always accompanies democracy.

Even if you believe that voting is more than a selection of meaningless choices designed to mask the true lack of agency we have, there is a tremendous amount of money and power and influence on the other side of this equation. So don't just vote or petition.

We can only desire based on what we know. It is our present experience of what we are and are not able to do that largely determines our sense for what is possible.

The concept of the "majority" is particularly troubling. By always accepting the will of the majority, democracy allows for majorities to have an absolute tyranny over everyone else.

If the federal government can't even count how many laws there are, what chance does an individual have of being certain that they are not acting in violation of one of them?

Those maintaining positions of power will always encourage the freedom to talk about ideas, but never to act.

If the federal government had access to every email you've ever written and every phone call you've ever made, it's almost certain that they could find something you've done which violates a provision in the 27,000 pages of federal statues or 10,000 administrative regulations. You probably do have something to hide, you just don't know it yet.

I actually think that law enforcement should be difficult, and I think it should actually be possible to break the law.

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