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Subject: [etc-int] Fwd: St. Jude is dead
Date: Sunday 28 October 2007 02:58
From: Helen Varley Jamieson <helen op creative-catalyst.com>
To: etc-int op eclectictechcarnival.org

>Hackers Lose a Patron Saint
>By Michelle Delio
>
>Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/
>0,1282,59711,00.html
>
>02:00 AM Jul. 22, 2003 PT
>
>If there is a heaven, the angels are in for a hell of a time when Jude
>Milhon, the Internet's real and very earthy patron saint of hacking,
>shows up.
>
>Better known on the Internet by her nom de plume, St. Jude, Milhon
>died July 19 of cancer. Her age was an issue Milhon obviously decided
>not to address. Even her closest friends could only guess at it, and
>they admitted they could be off by as much as a decade.
>
>St. Jude wasn't your typical saint.
>
>She was a staunch advocate of the joys of hacking, geek sex and a
>woman's right to choose to use technology. She figured life was too
>short to waste worrying about what other people might think, and was
>also known for her very colorful way with the English language.
>
>Back when the Internet was populated primarily by men, she encouraged
>and helped other women to get online.
>
>"Girls need modems!" she said in a February 1995 Wired magazine
>interview.
>
>"She certainly was an icon of the infancy of the wired generation,"
>said security consultant Robert Ferrell. "We wouldn't be what we are
>without her, and for that, if for no other reason, she will be sorely
>missed."
>
>Milhon also believed in learning how to hack "as a martial art -- a
>way of defending against politically correct politicians, overly
>intrusive laws, bigots and narrow-minded people of all persuasions,"
>according to an e-mail she sent to this reporter in September 1999.
>
>And she particularly wanted to introduce women to the joys of hacking.
>
>"Women may not be great at physical altercations, but we sure excel at
>rapid-fire keyboarding," Milton wrote in that September e-mail.
>
>"We should look at the Internet as the life-skills school so many of
>us girls never attended, and get out there and learn to conquer our
>fears of not being nice enough, not being polite enough, not being
>strong enough, not being pretty enough, or smart enough or anything
>enough."
>
>Her definition of hacking -- "the clever circumvention of imposed
>limits, whether imposed by your government, your own skills or the
>laws of physics" -- has been widely quoted in many news stories and
>magazine articles.
>
>Milhon may be most heralded, at least among technically inclined
>women, for her guidebook to "real-time nonvirtual sex."
>
>Written for girl geeks, Hacking the Wetware: The NerdGirl's Pillow
>Book was a guide intended to turn women into happy hackers by
>demystifying the workings of both the body and the brain.
>
>"While luring you with sex, (this book) is subtly training you to
>think like a hacker. You think, therefore you hack ... it's a
>become-it-yourself guide," Milhon said in an e-mail describing the
>book's "hidden agenda."
>
>The original version of Wetware was released on the Internet in the
>spring of 1994. Milhon later reissued it, again on the Net, under a
>new title: The Joy of Hacker Sex.
>
>"St. Jude taught me that it isn't necessary to have big boobs to be a
>sex goddess. All you really need is a big brain and the right
>attitude," said Unix programmer Nadine Ulmer.
>
>Milhon is also the author of The Cyberpunk Handbook and How to Mutate
>and Take Over the World. The latter book was co-authored with R.U.
>Sirius, co-founder and former editor of tech culture magazine Mondo
>2000, where Milhon was a senior editor.
>
>Milhon began programming in 1967 for the Horn and Hardart automats in
>Manhattan, after reading the book Teach Yourself Fortran. She was a
>founding member of Cypherpunks, a loosely organized group of digital
>privacy advocates (Milhon also coined the name Cypherpunk) and was a
>member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility -- a group
>that she cheerfully described as a "lefto-revolutionist programming
>commune."
>
>CPSR formed the Community Memory Project in 1973, widely believed to
>be the very first public online computer system.
>
>End of story

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