🇻🇪🔓🇻🇪 — Another attack by the hacker collective Anonymous has extracted the database of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), the party of Nicolás Maduro!

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💻 🥷❌📸👺💻 Anonymous crypto expands freedom. It is a tool of change.

I've often heard people say: anonymity defends against violent coercion from the state.

But that's propaganda. The truth is far bigger than we imagined.

There are two forms of power: soft power and hard power.

Soft power means winning people over. You think my reasoning is rational or you align with my values. That's soft power.

Hard power is coercive and there are two forms: military and economic force. States offer military protection as a carrot; trade sanctions as a stick.

Hard power uses its coercive might to make you follow its will.

My argument is this: cryptography is a new third form of hard power.

Cryptography makes use of hard mathematical laws of nature that cannot be changed. It does not bow down before man's law.

Hackers can wield cryptography to inflict their vision on the world.

The dark forest refers to the internet overgrown with cryptography, the end result of the "going dark" problem described by the FBI in 2013.

What does this mean?

Imagine an authoritarian regime comes to power and oppresses your people.

You and your friends want to fight back. You form a squad to mobilize against injustice and for freedom.

You form anon on-chain treasuries and aggregate funding for your operations.

You conduct trade fully in the dark and recruit people to your cause.

You organize and communicate in a fully deniable and safe way.

You host no infrastructure and everything you use is fully p2p and untraceable.

You are anonymous, uncensored and sovereign.

Those who have nothing to hide, have nothing to say- they are non-threatening.

Cryptography is expansive, not merely defensive. We want cryptography precisely because we want to live in a free society.

The regimes of power that dominate the world today are extremely corrupt. They have everything to lose with the success of crypto.

You have nothing to lose except your chains.

Our job as cyber-revolutionaries is to rewild the internet and expand the dark forest.

This is the hard, expansive power of cryptography.

So, let there be dark.

Amir Taaki (@Narodism) 🖇