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Judith [Jude] Milhon best known by her pseudonym St. Jude, was a hacker and author in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Milhon coined the term cypherpunk and was a founding member of the cypherpunks. -
her vision of the things
Activism within the cyber community was important to Milhon as well. She frequently urged women toward the internet and hacking while encouraging them to have "tough skin" in the face of harassment.The creation of cypherpunks was also part of her politic: the goals of privacy through encryption. -
her professional projects
Milhon taught herself programming in 1967 and landed her first job at the Horn and Hardart company of New York before she moved away to California to join the counter culture movement.Among the projects she contributed to were the Berkeley Software Distribution operating system and the Community Memory .She was a member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, and the author of several books. She was a senior editor at the magazine Mondo 2000 and frequent contributor to Boing Boing. -
she die
On July 19, 2003, Milhon died of cancer.
