From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 07:15:58 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Newsweek Nerd 50
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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...