John Gilmore (activist)

John Gilmore (born 1955) is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. He sponsored the EFF's Deep Crack DES cracker, sponsored the Micropolis city building game based on SimCity, and is a proponent of opportunistic encryption.

The foundation was formed in July 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor to promote Internet civil liberties.

John Gilmore (born 1955) is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions.

In late 1992, Eric Hughes, Timothy C. May and John Gilmore founded a small group that met monthly at Gilmore's company Cygnus Solutions in the San Francisco Bay Area, and was humorously termed cypherpunks by Jude Milhon at one of the first meetings - derived from cipher and cyberpunk.

John Gilmore (born 1955) is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. As the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems and founder of Cygnus Support, he became wealthy enough to retire early and pursue other interests.

Cygnus Solutions, originally Cygnus Support, was founded in 1989 by John Gilmore, Michael Tiemann and David Henkel-Wallace to provide commercial support for free software.

He created the alt.* hierarchy in Usenet and is a major contributor to the GNU Project.

The alt.* hierarchy was created by John Gilmore and Brian Reid.

He was the plaintiff in the prominent case Gilmore v. Gonzales, challenging secret travel-restriction laws.

2006), was a lawsuit filed by John Gilmore against various United States executive and independent agencies and departments, and United Airlines.

He is a frequent contributor to free software, and worked on several GNU projects, including maintaining the GNU Debugger in the early 1990s, initiating GNU Radio in 1998, starting Gnash media player in December 2005 to create a free software player for Flash movies, and writing the pdtar program which became GNU tar.

From 1990 to 1993 it was maintained by John Gilmore.

He is a frequent contributor to free software, and worked on several GNU projects, including maintaining the GNU Debugger in the early 1990s, initiating GNU Radio in 1998, starting Gnash media player in December 2005 to create a free software player for Flash movies, and writing the pdtar program which became GNU tar.

Gnash was first announced in late 2005 by software developer John Gilmore.

He is a frequent contributor to free software, and worked on several GNU projects, including maintaining the GNU Debugger in the early 1990s, initiating GNU Radio in 1998, starting Gnash media player in December 2005 to create a free software player for Flash movies, and writing the pdtar program which became GNU tar.

Philanthropist John Gilmore initiated GNU Radio with the funding of $320,000 (US) to Eric Blossom for code creation and project-management duties.

Outside of the GNU project he founded the FreeS/WAN project, an implementation of IPsec, to promote the encryption of Internet traffic.

The project was founded by John Gilmore, and administered for most of its duration by Hugh Daniel.

Gilmore famously stated of Internet censorship that "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it".

Gilmore owns the domain name toad.com, which is one of the 100 oldest active .com domains.

As the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems and founder of Cygnus Support, he became wealthy enough to retire early and pursue other interests.

Notable Sun employees included John Gilmore, Whitfield Diffie, Radia Perlman, and Marc Tremblay.

Gilmore has received the Free Software Foundation's Advancement of Free Software 2009 award.

He sponsored the EFF's Deep Crack DES cracker, sponsored the Micropolis city building game based on SimCity, and is a proponent of opportunistic encryption.

He sponsored the EFF's Deep Crack DES cracker, sponsored the Micropolis city building game based on SimCity, and is a proponent of opportunistic encryption.

Gilmore owns the domain name toad.com, which is one of the 100 oldest active .com domains.

He runs the mail server at toad.com as an open mail relay.

The most famous open mail relay operating today is probably that of John Gilmore, who argues that running an open relay is a freedom of speech issue.

Gilmore is also an advocate for the relaxing of drug laws and has given financial support to Students for Sensible Drug Policy, the Marijuana Policy Project, Erowid, MAPS, Flex Your Rights, and various other organizations seeking to end the war on drugs.

MAPS is governed by a board of directors including John Gilmore, David Bronner, Robert J. Barnhart, and Rick Doblin.

He created the alt.* hierarchy in Usenet and is a major contributor to the GNU Project.

He created the alt.* hierarchy in Usenet and is a major contributor to the GNU Project.

An outspoken civil libertarian, Gilmore has sued the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Justice, and others.

An outspoken civil libertarian, Gilmore has sued the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Justice, and others.

An outspoken civil libertarian, Gilmore has sued the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Justice, and others.

An outspoken civil libertarian, Gilmore has sued the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Justice, and others.

He was the plaintiff in the prominent case Gilmore v. Gonzales, challenging secret travel-restriction laws.