XPost: alt.privacy.anon-server, alt.privacy

Gabx wrote:

Nomen Nescio wrote:

I just watched the YouTube video

| Shipyard Academy
| Lecture 6: A cypherpunk history of mixnets by CEO Harry Halpin

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k_G4Fc_ka0>

a biased history of anonymous mailing published 2 years ago.  And,
reading between the lines, for the author Harry Halpin, CEO and
co-founder of Nym Technologies, it's only about making money through
payment systems.

According to their roadmap the goal is a

| Paid mixnet via anonymous bandwidth credentials

| In the far more distant future we want to see everyone using this

| I think we can scale to about a quarter of all the Internet traffic

<https://youtu.be/0k_G4Fc_ka0?feature=shared&t=1817>

For them thats the VPN business on steroids!

They betray the idealistic Cypherpunk movement, which once aimed at a
free Internet.  But that Internet now has to become their proprietary
cash cow.  And they're already awash in money, which immensely helps
promoting their product.

Wherever there's money and financial interests involved, there can be no
real struggle for ideals. The Cypherpunk movement once stood for freedom
on the internet, but now we're seeing these principles being commercialized.

What Harry Halpin and Nym Technologies are doing appears to be
transforming what was once an idealistic movement into a commercial
venture - essentially creating a proprietary system they can profit
from. Their goal of scaling to "a quarter of all Internet traffic"
reveals their true motivation.

This is sadly emblematic of a larger problem: a world built around money
that ultimately threatens everyone's freedom. When financial gain
becomes the primary objective, the original mission of creating truly
free and anonymous networks gets corrupted.

True privacy infrastructure should serve people, not profit margins.

Gabx
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