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Hughes, Eric, Gilmore, John, and May, Tim Team

Hughes, Eric, Gilmore, John, and May, Tim Team definition - hacker
Thinking that a need existed for privacy in an open-information society, Eric Hughes started the Cypherpunks with John Gilmore and Tim May. Calling themselves a wandering band of cryptographers, advocates for privacy, and anarchists in a digital world, the Cypherpunks have a prolific email list that purportedly synthesizes mathematical concepts with the practical issues of a cultural revolution.

See Also: Cypherpunks.

Wired Digital Inc. Eric Hughes. [Online, July 11, 1996.] Wired Digital Inc. Website. http://hotwired.wired.com/talk/club/special/transcripts/96-07-11.hughes.html.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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