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John Gilmore (activist)

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John Gilmore (born 1955) is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. [1]

47 relations: Agrippa (A Book of the Dead), Airport security repercussions due to the September 11 attacks, Alt.* hierarchy, Brian Reid (computer scientist), Bullrun (decryption program), Censorship, Cygnus Solutions, Cypherpunk, Data Encryption Standard, DNSBL, Don Hopkins, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Eric Hughes (cypherpunk), Fork (software development), FreeS/WAN, FSF Free Software Awards, Gilmore (surname), Gilmore v. Gonzales, Gnash (software), GNU Debugger, GNU Radio, Hugh Daniel, Internet censorship, John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow, Khufu and Khafre, Leonard Rose (hacker), List of programmers, List of Sun Microsystems employees, List of the oldest currently registered Internet domain names, Lori Fena, Military Cryptanalytics, Mitch Kapor, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, My kung fu is stronger than yours, On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog, Open mail relay, Open-source software, Opportunistic encryption, Outline of free software, Palenque Norte, Suicide Club (secret society), Sun Microsystems, Technolibertarianism, The WELL, UUCP, .com.

Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)

Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) is a work of art created by science fiction novelist William Gibson, artist Dennis Ashbaugh and publisher Kevin Begos Jr.

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Airport security repercussions due to the September 11 attacks

After the September 11 attacks, questions were raised regarding the effectiveness of airport security at the time, as all 19 hijackers involved in 9/11 managed to pass existing checkpoints and board the airplanes without incident.

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Alt.* hierarchy

The alt.* hierarchy is a major class of newsgroups in Usenet, containing all newsgroups whose name begins with "alt.", organized hierarchically.

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Brian Reid (computer scientist)

Brian Keith Reid (born 1949) is an American computer scientist.

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Bullrun (decryption program)

Bullrun (stylized BULLRUN) is a clandestine, highly classified program to crack encryption of online communications and data, which is run by the United States National Security Agency (NSA).

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Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient" as determined by government authorities.

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Cygnus Solutions

Cygnus Solutions, originally Cygnus Support, was founded in 1989 by John Gilmore, Michael Tiemann and David Henkel-Wallace to provide commercial support for free software.

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Cypherpunk

A cypherpunk (UK /ˈsʌɪfəpʌŋk/ US /ˈsʌɪfərpʌŋk/) is any activist advocating widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a route to social and political change.

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Data Encryption Standard

The Data Encryption Standard (DES) is a symmetric-key algorithm for the encryption of electronic data.

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DNSBL

A Domain Name System-based Blackhole List (DNSBL) or Real-time Blackhole List (RBL) is an effort to stop email spamming.

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Don Hopkins

Don Hopkins is an artist and programmer specializing in human computer interaction and computer graphics and an alumnus of the University of Maryland and a former member of the University of Maryland Human–Computer Interaction Lab.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.

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Eric Hughes (cypherpunk)

Eric Hughes is an American mathematician, computer programmer, and cypherpunk.

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Fork (software development)

In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct and separate piece of software.

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FreeS/WAN

FreeS/WAN, for Free Secure Wide-Area Networking, was a free software project, which implemented a reference version of the IPsec network security layer for Linux.

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FSF Free Software Awards

Free Software Foundation (FSF) grants two annual awards.

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Gilmore (surname)

Gilmore and Gillmore are surnames with several origins and meanings.

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Gilmore v. Gonzales

Gilmore v. Gonzales, (9th Cir. 2006), was a lawsuit filed by John Gilmore against various United States executive and independent agencies and departments, and United Airlines.

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Gnash (software)

Gnash is a media player for playing SWF files.

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GNU Debugger

The GNU Debugger (GDB) is a portable debugger that runs on many Unix-like systems and works for many programming languages, including Ada, C, C++, Objective-C, Free Pascal, Fortran, Go, Java and partially others.

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GNU Radio

GNU Radio is a free software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software-defined radios and signal-processing systems.

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Hugh Daniel

Hugh Daniel (April 19, 1962, Chicago, Illinois – June 3, 2013, Pacifica, California) was a noted computer engineer.

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Internet censorship

Internet censorship is the control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet enacted by regulators, or on their own initiative.

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John Gilmore

John Gilmore may refer to.

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John Perry Barlow

John Perry Barlow (October 3, 1947 – February 7, 2018) was an American poet and essayist, a cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who had been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties.

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Khufu and Khafre

In cryptography, Khufu and Khafre are two block ciphers designed by Ralph Merkle in 1989 while working at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center.

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Leonard Rose (hacker)

Leonard Rose (born 1959 in Elkton, Maryland), aka Terminus, is an American hacker who in 1991 accepted a plea bargain that convicted him of two counts of wire fraud stemming from publishing an article in Phrack magazine.

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List of programmers

This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions.

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List of Sun Microsystems employees

These notable people worked at Sun Microsystems at some point prior to its acquisition by Oracle Corporation.

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List of the oldest currently registered Internet domain names

This is a list of the oldest extant registered generic top-level domains used in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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Lori Fena

Lori Fena (born 1961) is an American internet activist, entrepreneur, and author, best known as the former director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation from 1995–98 and author of "The Hundredth Window".

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Military Cryptanalytics

Military Cryptanalytics (or MILCRYP as it is sometimes known) is a revision by Lambros D. Callimahos of the series of books written by William F. Friedman under the title Military Cryptanalysis.

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Mitch Kapor

Mitchell David Kapor (born November 1, 1950) is an American entrepreneur best known for his work as an application developer in the early days of the personal computer software industry, later founding Lotus, where he was instrumental in developing the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet.

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Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is a membership-based 501(c)(3) organization working to raise awareness and understanding of psychedelic substances.

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My kung fu is stronger than yours

"My kung fu is stronger than yours" is a popular cultural trope and catchphrase, originally referring to the clichéd plots of martial arts films.

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On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog

"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is an adage about Internet anonymity which began as a cartoon caption by Peter Steiner and published by The New Yorker on July 5, 1993.

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Open mail relay

An open mail relay is an SMTP server configured in such a way that it allows anyone on the Internet to send e-mail through it, not just mail destined to or originating from known users.

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Open-source software

Open-source software (OSS) is a type of computer software whose source code is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.

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Opportunistic encryption

Opportunistic encryption (OE) refers to any system that, when connecting to another system, attempts to encrypt the communications channel, otherwise falling back to unencrypted communications.

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Outline of free software

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to free software and the free software movement: Free software – software which can be run, studied, examined, modified, and redistributed freely (without any cost).

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Palenque Norte

Palenque Norte is a Burning Man theme camp and lecture series inspired by the talks given by entheogen researcher Terence McKenna at the Palenque Entheobotany Seminars in January 1999.

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Suicide Club (secret society)

The Suicide Club was a secret society in San Francisco credited as the first modern extreme urban exploration society, and also known for anarchic group pranks.

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Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was an American company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC.

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Technolibertarianism

Technolibertarianism, sometimes referred to as cyberlibertarianism, is a political philosophy with roots in the internet’s early hacker cypherpunk culture in Silicon Valley in the early 1990s and in American libertarianism that focuses on minimizing government regulation, censorship or anything else in the way of a "free" World Wide Web.

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The WELL

The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, normally shortened to The WELL, is one of the oldest virtual communities in continuous operation.

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UUCP

UUCP is an abbreviation of Unix-to-Unix Copy.

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.com

The domain name com is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_(activist)

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