In the mid-1990s, Mr. Young said, he became acquainted with Mr. Assange through the "cypherpunks" movement, which united programmers, hackers and others interested in Internet privacy. ❋ Jeanne Whalen (2010)
Back in the 90s, I thought the cypherpunks were going to lead the way and provide the way for people to have a secure Internet where anonymity and privacy from the government/corporations was valued. ❋ Owlfish (2010)
Or is it a censorship-busting peer-to-peer network erected by lawless but well-meaning cypherpunks? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Handily cypherpunks/cypherpunks came to the rescue. ❋ Unknown (2007)
PGP didn't become standard e-mail fare outside of the community of geeks, cypherpunks and those with special privacy needs, like human rights workers and people living in countries where the government routinely spies on its citizens without oversight. ❋ Unknown (2006)
ESP Game (reg required, cypherpunks/cypherpunks works) is a game whose objective is to incent English-speaking net users to keyword-label every image on the Internet. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The US military takes out a patent on onion-routing, a technology for disguising a packet's origin that cypherpunks have been routinely using for a decade. ❋ Unknown (2001)
EFF co-founder John Gilmore is calling for cypherpunks to move their strong crypto projects to servers located outside the US, before Congress enacts any anti-export or backdoor legislation. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Send e-mail to [email protected] with "subscribe cypherpunks" in the body to be added or subtracted from the list. ❋ Unknown (1995)
To: cypherpunks [at] al-qaeda. net Subject: Re: Kaspersky wants to make Tor illegal and supports a globalized policed internet. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02: 04: 35 +0000 (UTC) From: John Case To: or-talk [at] freehaven. net Cc: cypherpunks [at] al-qaeda. net Subject: Re: Kaspersky wants to make Tor illegal and supports a globalized policed internet. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Cypherpunk, cypherpunks or cpunks are also occasionally used as a username and password on websites which require registration, especially if the user does not intend to return or does not wish to reveal information about himself. ❋ Unknown (2008)
There was also a feeling of an Us against Them battle; most cypherpunks were fundamentally opposed to many government policies on cryptography. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The cypherpunks were an informal group of people interested in cryptography who originally communicated through the cypherpunks mailing list. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The cypherpunks list had a variety of viewpoints and many rather heated discussions, but there was a overall attitude exemplified in these quotes from the ❋ Unknown (2008)
At some point, I may get to doing articles on Stephenson, Cryptonomicom and cypherpunks. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The cypherpunks list had a variety of viewpoints and many rather heated discussions, but there was a overall attitude exemplified in these quotes from ❋ Unknown (2008)
A cypherpunk considers [anonymity] as [a top] [priority] over everything else. ❋ Konholio (2005)
