Max is Senior Developer Relations at Nym Technologies, building developer tooling, SDKs, and example projects for developers who wish to build the new internet free from mass surveillance. Prior to joining Nym he was a Smart Contract developer and artist with an academic background in Political Philosophy and the Philosophy of Technology.

Max Hampshire

This talk will provide a comprehensive journey through the fundamentals of network communication, explore the workings and risks of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), and dive into the world of Mixnets. We’ll discuss how decentralized Mixnets can offer privacy by default, potentially eliminating the need for traditional VPNs.

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From Packets to Privacy: Understanding and Evolving Network Security

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.