On 7/21/15 8:49 PM, Seth wrote:
On
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:54:25 -0700, Lance Cottrell
<loki@obscura.com> wrote:
I recall it being more nuanced and
diverse.
I wasn't there in the beginning so I don't have any firsthand
knowledge.
According to this piece, [1] "Almost all cypherpunks were
anarchists who regarded the state as the enemy."
I will have to dig to find my archives of that era to be positive,
but I'm pretty sure I joined by 1994 at the latest, probably 1993.
I installed the first firewall at Bank of America in late 1994, so
it may have been much earlier since I'd already been into security
for a while at that point. I was part of the whole rise and fall of
Detweiller. I'm always puzzled that most people haven't heard of
him.
http://borg.uu3.net/ldetweil/medusa/detweiler.html
I'm basing the claim on the fact that founding member Timothy May
wasn't exactly shy about his crypto *anarchy* vision of the
future.
Not sure what exactly what Eric Hughes or John Gilmore's were at
the time.
[1]
http://onlyinamericablogging.blogspot.jp/2011/03/robert-manne-julian-assange-cypherpunk.html
sdw