[45823] in Cypherpunks
Re: Newsweek Nerd 50
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim bell)
Fri Dec 22 17:55:00 1995
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 14:25:26 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
At 11:04 PM 12/21/95 -0600, you wrote:
>Cypherpunk Notables on the List: "Newsweek's Epithet"
>Phil Zimmerman: "Crypto Creator"
>Marc Rotenberg: "Privacy Advocate"
>Sameer Parekh: "Protector of Privacy"
>Johan Helsingius: "Crusader"
>and Steven Levy, who sometimes posts here has the byline on the "Year of
>the Net" feature.
>PS to Newsweek -- Prof. Hoffman should be called a "Data Goddess" not a
>"Geek" for exposing those bogus factors the marketdroids want to use to
>control their survey data back up to the population level.
Of course, Newsweek should have included the "baddies" as well: Dorothy
Denning would be the Wicked Witch of the West, and Sternlight would have
been one of those Winged Monkeys...
