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A new brand of politics was taking hold online. Left leaning liberals and free market libertarians combined to create something new. United by a belief that encryption was a powerful political weapon, they were technically literate, proudly wrote code and a profound influence on Julian Assange and the creation of Wikileaks. The Cypherpunks.
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