Iness Ben Guirat is a privacy researcher at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She did her PhD at COSIC, KU Leuven, under the supervision of Prof. Claudia Diaz on Privacy with a specific focus on mixnets 

Iness has a keen interest in exploring the intersection of technology, privacy and their broader impact on society.

Iness Ben Guirat

Rather than bend to knee to Donald Trump, the goal of the cypherpunk movement is to abolish the state in order to maximize human freedom via privacy-enhancing decentralized technologie. After reviewing the history of this deviant group of programmers in the 1980s, what philosophical and technical lessons do the cypherpunks hold for Ethereum today? Censorship-resistant digital cash was only one the start, and the missing parts of their legacy: mixnets and anonymous credentials for identity.