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According to DejaNews, Mike Duvos has also issued a newgroup for
alt.cypherpunks:
>Subject: cmsg newgroup alt.cypherpunks
>From: [email protected] (Mike Duvos)
>Date: 1997/02/11
>Message-Id: <[email protected]>
>Sender: [email protected]
>Control: newgroup alt.cypherpunks
>Organization: Netcom On-Line Services
>Newsgroups: alt.cypherpunks
>
>
>
>alt.cypherpunks is an unmoderated newsgroup, needed as a replacement
>for the high volume Cypherpunks mailing list, which is being evicted
>from its longtime home at toad.com due to creative differences with
>the site owner, John Gilmore.
>
>For your newsgroups file:
>
>alt.cypherpunks Technological defenses for privacy
>
>Some background on Cypherpunks, snipped from the mailing list welcome
>message, follows...
>
>Cypherpunks assume privacy is a good thing and wish there were more of it.
>Cypherpunks acknowledge that those who want privacy must create it for
>themselves and not expect governments, corporations, or other large,
>faceless organizations to grant them privacy out of beneficence.
>Cypherpunks know that people have been creating their own privacy for
>centuries with whispers, envelopes, closed doors, and couriers.
>Cypherpunks do not seek to prevent other people from speaking about their
>experiences or their opinions.
>
>The most important means to the defense of privacy is encryption. To
>encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy. But to encrypt with weak
>cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Cypherpunks
>hope that all people desiring privacy will learn how best to defend it.
>
>Cypherpunks are therefore devoted to cryptography. Cypherpunks wish to
>learn about it, to teach it, to implement it, and to make more of it.
>Cypherpunks know that cryptographic protocols make social structures.
>Cypherpunks know how to attack a system and how to defend it. Cypherpunks
>know just how hard it is to make good cryptosystems.
>
>Cypherpunks love to practice. They love to play with public key
>cryptography. They love to play with anonymous and pseudonymous mail
>forwarding and delivery. They love to play with DC-nets. They love to
>play with secure communications of all kinds.
>
>Cypherpunks write code. They know that someone has to write code to
>defend privacy, and since it's their privacy, they're going to write it.
>Cypherpunks publish their code so that their fellow cypherpunks may
>practice and play with it. Cypherpunks realize that security is not built
>in a day and are patient with incremental progress.
>
>Cypherpunks don't care if you don't like the software they write.
>Cypherpunks know that software can't be destroyed. Cypherpunks know that
>a widely dispersed system can't be shut down.
>
>Cypherpunks will make the networks safe for privacy.
>
>--
> Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $
> [email protected] $ via Finger. $