A Priesthood of Privacy
An orthodox order of cryptans
Practicing a religion founded on protecting personal digital sovereignty
So committed to privacy that they sacrifice their worldly life
They open their lives to almost every kind of scrutiny
They live within the intersection of many ethical sets
And their purity gives the rest of us protection
As we offer our encrypted digital confessions
And they absolve us and wash our data clean
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They forgo privacy so that others can have it
They're like living onion routers
A Code of Honor
The privacy they give us is founded on a faith in us
A faith that we will act honorably
An acknowledgment that in our pursuit of privacy
We are also invoking a kind of anarchy
and for that turn towards freedom to be fruitful and beautiful
we must learn to govern ourselves well