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*These principles have been inherited from https://our.status.im/our-principles/
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Only minor stylistic changes have been made to them.*
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# Principles
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The goal of Vac is widespread adoption of the decentralized web.
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Our challenge is achieving mass adoption while staying true to our principles outlined below.
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## I. Liberty
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We believe in the sovereignty of individuals.
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As a research organization that stands for the cause of personal liberty,
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we aim to maximize social, political, and economic freedoms.
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This includes being coercion-resistant.
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## II. Censorship resistance
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We enable free flow of information.
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No content is under surveillance.
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We abide by the cryptoeconomic design principle of censorship resistance.
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Even stronger, we design agnostic infrastructures for information.
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## III. Security
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We don't compromise on security when building features.
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We use state-of-the-art technologies,
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and research new security methods and technologies to make strong security guarantees.
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## IV. Privacy
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Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.
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For us, it's essential to protect privacy in both communications and transactions,
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as well as pseudo-anonymity.
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Additionally, we strive to provide the right of total anonymity.
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## V. Transparency
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We strive for complete openness and symmetry of information within the organization,
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and have no border between our core contributors and our community.
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We are frank about our shortcomings,
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especially when making short-term tradeoffs in service of our long-term goals.
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## VI. Openness
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The software we create is a public good.
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It is made available via a free and open source license,
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for anyone to share, modify and benefit from.
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We believe in permission-less participation.
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## VII. Decentralization
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We minimize centralization across both the software and the organization itself.
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In other words, we maximize the number of physical computers composing the network,
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and maximize the number of individuals who have control over the system(s) we are building.
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## VIII. Inclusivity
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We believe in fair and widespread access to our software, with an emphasis on ease-of-use.
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This also extends to social inclusivity, permissionless participation, interoperability,
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and investing in educational efforts.
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## IX. Continuance
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We create software incentivized to continue to exist and improve,
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without the stewardship of a single entity or any of the current team members.
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## X. Resourcefulness
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We are relentlessly resourceful.
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As we grow and have ready access to capital,
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it is our obligation to token holders to fight bureaucracy and inefficiencies within the organization.
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This means solving problems in the most effective way possible at lower economic costs
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(in terms of capital, time and resources).
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