Manifesto For The Right to Keep and Bear Encryption Tools
Freedom is the highest political cause that can be pursued.
It is not a means to achieve other goals. Freedom is the
ultimate political goal by itself. Freedom and Justice
should never be discarded in favor of concepts such as
wealth distribution, traditional cultural values, or any
other of the excuses usually wielded by totalitarians in
order to take your freedom away to pursue their nefarious
goals. For true freedom to exist in society, many requisites
must be met. Privacy of communications is just one of them.
If your communications are not secret, you can be profiled
and turned into a statistic in some government or corporate
database. You can be monitored by enemies you don’t know you
have who want to ensure you are not a threat to their only
true way of thinking. The very right of free speech many
times depends on your ability to remain hidden from the
people who would kill you for saying the things you say.
There are powers out there that are really afraid of your
right to free speech. That is the reason they always press
against civil rights in the digital world. That is the
reason why they try to ban or regulate quality encryption,
under the flag of national security. They are afraid of
anything they cannot control, so they tag it as a security
problem and try to monitor it or destroy it. That is why,
every now and then, you hear proposals about removing
judicial barriers for tapping communications. They want your
communications to be less secure so they can tap them
whenever they want. Are you going to let them do it without
a fight?
Crypto For Liberty and the entities adhered to this manifesto
are here to defend the interest of citizens that want to be
freemen in the digital world. Our goal is to offer resources
for people who want to communicate securely over the
Internet or over any other network, and to advocate
proper security practices against known and unknown enemies.
Our goal is to foster the growth of security software and to
offer a haven for those who are tired of hearing the naive
argument that if you have nothing to hide you should take no
security measures. Our goal it to turn the Internet into a
place for free market and free speech, and to provide
cyber-weapons to fight those who want it to become a
totalitarian nightmare.