Paul Rosenberg: Cryptic Conscience

Episode 140 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast – Paul Rosenberg: Cryptic Conscience

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with original cryptographer Paul Rosenberg about the origins of morality, the epic adventures of the cryptographers of Laissez-Faire City, which cryptographic tools governments will attack next, the anti-capitalist sentiments in cryptography, the problems of hierarchy, liberation theology, the problems of intellectual property, and the ethics of gene editing.

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Timeline
00:00 – Introduction
1:50 – Where do morals come from?
4:55 – Prague Hacker’s Conference
12:44 – Stories from Laissez-Faire City
20:30 – What cryptographic tool will the governments go after next
24:40 – When Paul met the guy who invented DNS
26:15 – Anti-capitalist sentiments in cryptography
31:21 – The knowledge problem of centralized systems
36:20 – The laziness of “right to” culture
39:00 – The problem of hierarchic for anarchic Christians
43:50 – Liberation Theology
47:25 – The problem of intellectual property
52:00 – Ethics of CRISPR and gene editing
56:40 – Final thoughts

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio