cypherpunks vs hackers

Timothy C. May tcmay at got.net
Sat Jul 27 23:03:34 PDT 1996


At 1:36 PM 7/27/96, Jerome Tan wrote:
>How can we differentiate cypherpunks to hackers? What are their attitudes,
>psychological thinking, main objective?

I would differentiate cypherpunks to hackers this way:

dC/dH

Not sure what the result is, but the slope is the key.


--Tim


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