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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. He created the alt.* hierarchy in Usenet and is a major contributor to the GNU Project.
John Gilmore is an entrepreneur and civil libertarian. He was an early employee of Sun Microsystems, early open source author, and co-created Cygnus Solutions, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks, the DES Cracker, and the Internet's "alt" newsgroups.
Activist. JOHN GILMORE co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the "alt" newsgroups, the Cypherpunks, and 1989 open source company Cygnus Solutions. He's been pushing encryption technology out of government spy agency control for 15 years.
Oct 21, 2020 · In the early 90s, at the same time that Gilmore was fighting his legal battle for freedom of speech in software, the cypherpunks were exploring cryptography's potential in the context of ...
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May 25, 2021 · In 1992, three friends Eric Hughes, Timothy May, and John Gilmore, convened for a meeting that would eventually give rise to the cypherpunk movement. Hughes was a mathematician at UC Berkeley, May was a businessman employed by Intel, and Gilmore was a computer scientist who worked for Sun Microsystems (now owned by Oracle).
Aug 21, 2023 · John Gilmore (born 1955) is an American computer science innovator, Libertarian, Internet activist, and one of the founders of Electronic Frontier Foundation. He created the alt.* hierarchy in Usenet and is a major contributor to the GNU project.
John Gilmore may refer to: John Gilmore (activist) (born 1955), co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Cygnus Solutions. John Gilmore (musician) (1931–1995), American jazz saxophonist. John Gilmore (representative) (1780–1845), Pennsylvania politician.
