HIP hip hooray
Zooko Journeyman
zooko at xs4all.nl
Wed Aug 13 03:17:17 PDT 1997
A million monkeys operating under the pseudonym
"Mark Grant <mark at unicorn.com>" typed:
>
> Hey, Zooko! You were the only Cypherpunk who made the article in the
> 'Independent' (by that blonde reporter who was wandering around), though
> Lucky Green was mentioned by name.
Wow. Oh how the mighty have fallen, from an adulatory spread
in Wired to a mention in The Independent. And to think that
Lucky was the fellow who was supposed to get the most benefit
from the situation in the first place!
> '"[hacking] can be a wonderful thing", explained Zooco, a member of the
> CypherPunks. "Pretty much every useful aspect of modern computing was
> devised by hackers -- like the Internet and email."'
>
> So did she spell your name wrong, or were you using a pseudonym ;-) ?
I sound like an idiot, so I'm glad she mispelled my name.
Also that's a pretty darn loose quote. The "--" there, for
example, spans several sentences of conversation...
Did the article print her e-mail address?
Thanks,
Z
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