# Thanks to:
## Tuan, Jan, Travis, Brenn, Veera, Grammy, Wah, Nov, Fuzzy, Dan, Paul, Paul, Phil, Delton, Gouwa, Dung, Duong, and the whole cabal.
# **Dawn White Paper v0.1**
Jakob Gadikian, Tuan Pham Anh, Brenn Hill, Fuzzy, Jan schets
**Introduction**
The growing trend towards the centralization of online tools has severe privacy and security implications. The underlying networks create a single point of failure, hackers have it easier to get to valuable and sensitive data, and network providers can be bullied by local governmental agencies to disclose sensitive information about their clients and users.
Welcome to the age of Snowden and Wikileaks. The chain knows there is a substantial need to protect privacy in online communication. And things might only be beginning. The emergence of the ‘Internet of Things’ (IOT), heralds a new age in the era of mass surveillance. TV’s that record bedroom conversations, phones and tablets tracking your every move, and even