From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 14:03:34 +0800
To: Jerome Tan <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: cypherpunks vs hackers
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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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