As a member of the cypherpunk movement, I respect, and appreciate people who choose to remain anonymous, and protect their privacy.

Moreover, I myself follow OpSec principles, and make sure to lower any attack surface on myself and others I care about.

Tools like using Signal, encrypting files, using Tor for browsing, and having alternate online personalities that are anonymous are all useful, and I support them.

However, I have found a new kind of cypherpunk. The coward cypherpunk, the one that even though has successfully hidden his identity, and says he believes in freedom and privacy shares no beliefs, no opinions, no politics, no nothing.

This unprecedented level of cowardice does not lead to collaboration, or to bring any positive association with others. In fact it only connects you to spies, and feds, and even they have opinions.

So if you are an anonymous cypherpunk already, for crying out loud be brave, state what you believe in, have an opinion about this broken world, and join others who care about it. Otherwise you are just a shadow, and no one trusts a shadow except their own.