What does it mean to be a cypherpunk today? Neo-Cypherpunk 101 explores the movement’s history, practical privacy tools, culture, collective action and a future built around freedom and care. Learn for free: academy.web3privacy.info/p/neo-cypher...

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Opting out of Big Tech? Explore the stack of @rude1.blacksky.team, founder of @blackskyweb.xyz: Chrome → @firefox.com WhatsApp → @signal.org VPN → @mullvad.bsky.social Network → @torproject.org And more. Check out Rudy's and other's stacks! stacks.web3privacy.info/stacks/rudy-fraser

What's new in privacy this week? The latest Web3Privacy Now Newsletter is out, covering confidential smart contracts, Human Passport, GrapheneOS, secure hardware wallets, digital rights, and more. Read the full newsletter: news.web3privacy.info/2026-32/

Want to understand digital privacy without getting buried in technical language? Privacy 101 covers surveillance, threat models, privacy tools, decentralized communication and privacy in Web3. It is free and self-paced. academy.web3privacy.info/p/privacy-10...

Privacy should not mean living in fear or disappearing from society. It should mean having the freedom to choose what you share, when you share it and with whom. What does privacy make possible for you?

What is one privacy tool you recommend to almost everyone? Not necessarily the most advanced tool—just one that ordinary people can actually adopt and keep using.

Friday reading check: what book, essay or research paper are you currently reading? Privacy, politics, technology, fiction—anything that changed how you see the world. Drop your recommendation below.

Our book "The Pilitics of Privacy" has been sold out in one of the berlin bookstores. Thanks, for buying and supporting grassroots movement.

Welcoming Consensys as sponsor of ECC3! They are securing Ethereum since 2017, combining veteran security expertise with AI-augmented auditing and zk fuzzing to help protect the ecosystem’s most critical protocols and infrastructure. Let's fuel a better internet, together congress.web3privacy.info

That’s the heart of our new collection. The Politics of Privacy 📗 Exploring #power, #democracy & #freedom in the Digital Age with @naomibrockwell.bsky.social , @audreyt.org , David Chaum and others. Read/Download: web3privacynow.metalabel.com/politicsofpr...

Project Directory for Cypherpunk Congress 3. Ecosystem of organisations, applications, protocols and labs contributing to new internet imaginaries. ✔️ explore new projects ✔️ connect with peers ✔️ exchange knowledge between niches ✔️ flourish together congress.web3privacy.info/projects/

Become an active part of privacy community. Participate in chats. Help other people explore freedom tech. Be proactive & supportive. Lets make privacy a joyful cause! Join the movement: t.co/fzMQH6eLKp

Anatomy of An AI Killchain website is live by @airwars.bsky.social + @ainowinstitute.bsky.social explore human cost of algo surveillance: ai-killchain.airwars.org

Have an idea worth sharing? The Call for Proposals for Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress 3 is open. We're looking for talks, panels, and workshops exploring privacy, AI, digital rights, open source, and decentralization. Submit by Aug 21: tally.so/r/nrOzXl Web: congress.web3privacy.info

We're pleased to welcome Shutter Network as a sponsor of Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress 3. Their open-source threshold encryption helps protect users from front-running, censorship, and information asymmetry while keeping blockchains decentralized. congress.web3privacy.info

What do David Chaum, Audrey Tang, Primavera De Filippi, Glen Weyl, and Naomi Brockwell have in common? They all contributed to Politics of Privacy—a multidisciplinary book on privacy, democracy, governance, and the future of the internet. web3privacynow.metalabel.com/politicsofpr...

Can online voting stay anonymous, AI remain open and mesh messaging survive government pressure? This week: Freedom Tool, Google’s face-video recovery, open-weight AI, rollup security councils, Bitchat in India and more. Read Web3Privacy Now: news.web3privacy.info/2026-31/

Happy to welcome Fat Solutions as a sponsor of Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress 3. They're building zero-knowledge tools for private identity, wallets, and authentication. They also helped bring Richard Stallman to Cypherpunk Congress 2. congress.web3privacy.info

What were you reading during the weekend? We looked more into Decolonizing Money by Julio Linares and Debt: The First 5000 years by David Graeber. Tell us what inspires you.

Quantumpunk = neo-cypherpunk It approaches quantum as a new way of imagining ethical role of science, de-western gaze on tech and power. Discover via Technology & Power 001 : @jayapapaya.bsky.social, @konstantinosmei.bsky.social & Shumon Basar www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzy9...

Where do you discover good privacy tools? Recommendations from friends? Independent research? F-Droid? GitHub? Conferences? Pure luck? We’re curious how privacy software travels between communities.

What does a privacy researcher actually use every day? Personal Stacks collects real setups from people working across privacy, security and decentralization: stacks.web3privacy.info Whose stack should we document next?

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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - A.Camus Neo-Cypherpunk Summit 2026, Berlin

Explore the next generation of end-to-end encryption with Raphael Robert from Phoenix R&D Small team chose the standardisation way, spent years validating the encryption method that is now used by Apple and in ongoing Bluesky integration. At Neo-cypherpunk Summit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZnG...

Privacy infrastructure is maintained by real people. People who review code, answer questions, fix bugs, write documentation and keep services running—often with little recognition. Who deserves some appreciation this weekend?

Can privacy technologies strengthen democracy? In Democracy Ju-Jitsu, cryptography pioneer David Chaum argues they can—from certified news to privacy-preserving voting. Read it in Politics of Privacy: web3privacynow.metalabel.com/politicsofpr... Wishing our friends at @vocdoni.io to achieve this!

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Do you feel that your code can be censored? Try explore @radicle.dev - a sovereign {code forge} built on Git. Value-driven tech: radicle.dev