Timothy C. May says:
I'm not sure what Perry's not having heard of Jude Milhon is supposed to mean, or how "Wired" interviewing her is "another example of the continuing decay," etc.
In any case, Jude Milhon has been active in the hacker-writer community, going back to the 1970s.
Sorry. Everyone seems to be assuring me that I should know her and that she's a longtime friend of Eric's, but I must admit that I've no memory of anything she's done. I believe people who say she's the origin of the term "cypherpunk", but I must admit to still having no real knowledge of who this person is. In any case, I apologize for my ignorance and will try be on less of a hair trigger in the future. However, following a long stream of Wired interviews of bizarrely marginal community members, I simply assumed this was Yet Another.
Anyone who professes to be "disappointed" by "Wired" was clearly taken in by their hype.
I'm disappointed by them because they once used to care about getting facts in articles right and about discussing meaningful issues, and now they don't. They used to be a cross between the Economist and Mondo 2000, and now they are just Mondo 2001. When you try to count inaccuracies on the average page, you run out of interest in continuing the exercise before you run out of errors. They also used to have a point of view. They also used to have substantive articles, and now they have cover stories on "Zippies!" I'm not renewing my subscription. Perry