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- noun Plural form of
cypherpunk .
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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.
Website for Leaked Data Shines Spotlight on WikiLeaks Jeanne Whalen 2010
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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.
...Because Fiction Has To Make Sense owlfish 2010
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Or is it a censorship-busting peer-to-peer network erected by lawless but well-meaning cypherpunks?
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Handily cypherpunks/cypherpunks came to the rescue.
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Or is it a censorship-busting peer-to-peer network erected by lawless but well-meaning cypherpunks?
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: The doom that came by botnet 2009
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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.
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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.
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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.
Boing Boing: August 12, 2001 - August 18, 2001 Archives 2001
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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.
Boing Boing: September 16, 2001 - September 22, 2001 Archives 2001
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