Re: Vin McLellan & Charles Mudd On Denial of Service Attacks

[Bill Stewart]

At 10:33 PM 03/04/2000 -0800, Tim May wrote:
>At 9:19 PM -0800 3/4/00, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>>In response to Steve Mynott: the name cypherpunk is due to John
>>Gilmore
>
>No, this is not correct.

If I remember after-the-fact discussions correctly, it was St. Jude's pun.
>
>> who was at the time agitating to get the crypto export laws
>>lifted. The original agenda was to change society by writting code that
>>protected privacy.

That part's correct :-)

>> John is not a mindless vandal. In fact if you had
>>read the Markoff book you would know that Gilmore's house was
>>one of Mitnick's targets.

Also one of Shimomura's....


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                                        Bill
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