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Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Jarmo Lundgren:
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> > > Fossilized? I thought we're those over-the-edge, online, cypherpunks
> >> they talk about in Wired all the time... ;)
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> BTW, why do they use the word "cypher" instead of "cyber" in Wired?
> "Cypherpunk"... Some kind of word-play, I guess, but I don't get it...
I'm not 100% sure,
but I think the idea is,
cyberpunk is a genre of sci-fi,
but cypherpunk is a sort of digital anarchy movement to make sure
everyone has all the encryption and all the anonymity they want,
so they can discuss terrorism, bomb-making, pedophilia, and obscure
russian movies.
e.g.
ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/Home.html
https://www.cypherpunks.to/
last year even, a lot of web sites that had login dialogs,
you could log in with username/password cypherpunks/cypherpunks.
IIRC it even worked at the NY Times for a while. but I haven't
had this combination work for a few months now :-(
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