Jacob Appelbaum

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"Information is power. If you have information about the whole planet you have power over the whole planet. By knowing what people do in Germany they, of course, have power over them."

— Jacob Appelbaum

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"Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design."

— Jacob Appelbaum

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"There’s no real separation between the real world and the Internet. What we’ve begun to see now is a militarization of that space."

— Jacob Appelbaum

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“The Four Horsemen of the Info-pocalypse: child pornography, terrorism, money laundering, and The War on Some Drugs.”

— Jacob Appelbaum