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  Grounded: Millionaire John Gilmore stays close to home while making a point about privacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The passage of John Gilmore from a bespectacled proto-nerd from Bradford, Pa., to the twice-wealthy privacy-rights pioneer of the dot.com West Coast started in his father's living room, where he first suspected authority is used simply because someone has it.
John was born in York and the family moved to Bradford, near the state's northern border with New York, when he was small.
Gilmore, for instance, is blocked from most e-mail servers because he runs what the industry calls an "open relay" on his computer server, tucked into the basement of his house.
www.postgazette.com /pg/05058/462446.stm   (3442 words)

  
 John Gilmore Interview: THE VALLEY OF DEATH
Gilmore's father, Robert T. Gilmore Jr., was a frustrated actor, turned Walt Disney cartoon-painter, turned Los Angeles cop who was eventually dragged in with dozens of other LAPD uniforms to investigate the notorious mutilation murder of want-to-be actress Elizabeth Short — the so-called "Black Dahlia" — in 1947.
Gilmore's parents eventually split up and Gilmore and his mother split for El Monte, California — "Ellroy country," Gilmore has remarked, in reference to novelist James Ellroy, an approximate Gilmore contemporary whose break-through novel was a fanciful imagining of the "truth" behind Elizabeth Short's murder.
Gilmore said he met Short in 1946 when he was 11-years-old and the "Dahlia" and some cronies visited his paternal grandmother's house to research Grandma Gilmore's "Short" roots on his grandmother's sister's side.
www.modestyarbor.com /gilmore.html   (4328 words)

  
 Tribute to John Gilmore
John Gilmore was a legendary saxophonist who could have been more acclaimed than he was.
John Coltrane is said to have been influenced by this aspect of Gilmore's playing.
During the last few years, Gilmore also began to sing in the band; he was quite charming warbling "East of the Sun." Gilmore assumed nominal control of the Arkestra after Ra left the planet two years ago, but his ill health limited his ability to lead or even perform much with the band.
www.citypaper.net /articles/102695/article071.shtml   (497 words)

  
 Reason: Suspected Terrorist: Multimillionaire John Gilmore is suing the government to remain anonymous. Is this the ...
Multimillionaire John Gilmore is suing the government to remain anonymous.
John Gilmore, a computer industry multimillionaire and libertarian activist, is suing the federal government and two airline companies because the airlines demanded to see his ID before they would let him on a plane.
Gilmore's lawyers claim that this mysterious regulation about ID is "void for vagueness," since citizens can't know precisely what the law requires.
www.reason.com /0308/fe.bd.suspected.shtml   (5338 words)

  
 Gilmore v. Gonzales :: Want to Fly? Papers, Please.
John politely refused to show his ID and was not allowed to fly.
John worked his way up the bureaucratic chain and was eventually told by United Airlines that there were security directives that mandated the showing of ID, but that he couldn't see them.
John Gilmore left the airport and has not attempted to fly in the United States since that day.
papersplease.org /gilmore/facts.html   (375 words)

  
 Abstract/Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1997, working in conjunction with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, John Gilmore decided to demonstrate this by building a custom computer that would be able to solve the Data Encryption Standard, an encoding scheme the United States Government had been promoting for "secure" business and financial communications since the 1970s.
Gilmore demonstrated in July, 1998 by using his "DES Cracker" system to solve in just three days a DES-encoded message that had been produced as part of a decryption contest.
Gilmore's advocacy efforts on encryption policy aim to improve public understanding of this fundamental technology for privacy and accountability in open societies.
www.stanford.edu /class/ee380/9899fall/lect10.html   (308 words)

  
 John Gilmore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Gilmore was born in Montreal in 1951 and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Concordia University.
John has worked as a journalist for print and radio (for Radio Canada International, The Canadian Press news agency, etc.), as an editor (for trade, scholarly, and government publications), as a researcher and music programmer for CBC Radio, and as a teacher of English as a Second Language.
John has a novel forthcoming and is working on a new book set in Greece.
www.writersunion.ca /g/gilmore_j.htm   (159 words)

  
 EFF: Board of Directors
John Perry Barlow is a former Wyoming rancher and Grateful Dead lyricist.
John Gilmore is an entrepreneur and civil libertarian.
In 1997, she was named a Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and has also been a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery.
www.eff.org /about/board   (1388 words)

  
 Family of John Gilmore
John Thomas and William Landrum are on the 1837 tax list of Washington County, also Thomas Gilmore and William Gilmore.
John Gilmore III married Nancy Thomas, daughter of John Thomas of GA in 1790.
John GILMORE was in Clarke Co MS Territory in 1816 census.
www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/nirvana/621/gilmore.html   (976 words)

  
 Wired News: Judge to Hear Air ID Challenge
John Gilmore, the co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has sued United Airlines, Southwest Airlines and Attorney General John Ashcroft, alleging that the ID requirement stems from a "secret law" that violates his right to anonymous travel within the United States.
His attorney, William Simpich, argued before Judge Susan Illston that the requirement that Americans show their ID for domestic travel was the equivalent of creating an internal passport that allows authorities to monitor people's movements and activities in the United States.
Gilmore said that before Sept. 11, he flew several times without showing an ID, and that he fears the government is building a "dragnet" to track the movements of innocent citizens.
www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,57276,00.html   (659 words)

  
 Black Dahlia blooms again - Books - www.smh.com.au
What's more, Gilmore is possibly the only living person to have met both Elizabeth Short and the man he believes was her killer.
Gilmore taped an interview in which Wilson described the murder as if it had been committed by someone he knew.
Gilmore's book about the murder and his meetings with Wilson was first published in America in 1994.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/08/27/1093518076720.html   (995 words)

  
 The Silver Bowl: John Gilmore Griffin & Eleanor S.
Frederick Gilmore GRIFFIN was born March 5th, 1889 in Newry, Co. Armagh and died 1945 in Toronto, Canada at age 56 (A heart attack sustained after shovelling snow.) He was the author of “Soviet Scene” and “Variety Show”.
Gerald Walter GRIFFIN of St. John, NB Griffin-Davidson – October 15 at St. Clement’s Church, North Toronto, by Rev Canon Fidler – Gerald Walter, youngest son of the late John Gilmore Griffin, Newry, and Mrs.
John Gilmore Griffin, Newry, and Mrs.Griffin, Toronto to Florence Marie Atkinson, R.N. daughter of Mr.
www.user.dccnet.com /s.brown/biographies/griffin_john_gilmore_eleanor.htm   (1074 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gilmore, whose father was an LAPD cop at the time of Elizabeth Short's murder, delves deeply into one of Hollywood's most celebrated murder cases.
Gilmore's book has all the elements of a gritty movie: a sexual psychopath; a dedicated police detective pursuing the killer for decades; Short's reported anatomic anomaly, underdeveloped sex organs, which may have prevented her from having intercourse.
Gilmore takes us on his own long journey of personal discovery as well as retracing the journey of the sad and confused Miss Short from eager young hopeful in Hollywood to unidentified body on a slab in the county morgue.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1878923102?v=glance   (2347 words)

  
 Gilmore v. Ashcroft :: home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Whereas most people in his position would have moved to a tropical island and lived a life of luxury, John chose to use his fortune to protect and defend the US Constitution.
On the 4th of July 2002, John Gilmore, American citizen, decided to take a trip from one part of the United States of America to another.
On the 16th of August 2004, John Gilmore filed his case before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
www.papersplease.org /gilmore   (244 words)

  
 jwz - John Gilmore, Suspected Terrorist
Yes, Gilmore was probably provoking the airline, but provoking an unjust legal mechanism into publicly humiliating itself and polarizing public opinion against it is a long-standing tradition with a good record of success.
The majority of the Civil Rights Movement is a good example (the right of white restaraunt owners to not serve fls was protected by state constitutions, after all), and the most notable example was the death blow that Joseph Welch dealt to Senator McCarthy during the Army hearings.
Given enough time and press, people will listen to stories like John Gilmore's, and say things like "Now, I never liked troublemakers, but this air-security concern is just going too far", just as they said similar things at the end of McCarthyism and Jim Crow.
www.livejournal.com /users/jwz/231072.html   (1829 words)

  
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John Gilmore: I was ejected from a plane for wearing "Suspected Terrorist" button
But I would be hard pressed to come up with a security measure more useless and intrusive than turning a plane around because of a political button on someone's lapel.
John Gilmore PS: For those who know I don't fly in the US because of the ID demand: I'm willing to show a passport to travel to another country.
www.politechbot.com /p-04973.html   (1128 words)

  
 lies.com » John Gilmore, Suspected Terrorist
Great story about EFF co-founder John Gilmore’s removal from a British Airways flight because he was wearing a button that the airline didn’t like: I was ejected from a plane for wearing “Suspected Terrorist” button.
To me, Gilmore’s actions are in the relm of the self-righteous and self-absorbed crowd (which I previously described)that are so blindly focused on displaying their indignation in some public way, that they will risk a confrontation and incident that will impact far more than just themselves, in order to get some form of personal satisfaction.
My main point, however, is still to hear an answer from Gilmore, or others who feel as strongly as him, for a workable alternative solution to the apparently intolerable trashing of personal rights that are being forced upon the flying public.
www.lies.com /wp/2003/07/19/john-gilmore-suspected-terrorist   (587 words)

  
 John Gilmore biography : albums : icebergradio.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Gilmore's decision to play almost exclusively within the realm of Sun Ra's Arkestra long frustrated jazz observers who felt that he could have made a bigger impact if he had had a solo career.
Gilmore grew up in Chicago and after a stint in the Army (1948-1952), he worked with Earl Hines (1952).
His playing in the 1950s was an influence on the developing John Coltrane and Gilmore, who teamed up with Clifford Jordan for a 1957 Blue Note session, did spend 1964-1965 with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
www.icebergradio.com /artist/6578/death_cab_for_cutie.html   (169 words)

  
 GrepLaw | John Gilmore on inflight activism, spam and sarongs
One of these days someone will actually get it into John's head that it's damage to their wallets that most spam victims are concerned with, not damage to the net.
Be happy people like John are protecting your rights to disagree with him, because the US government is surely not helping you at all in that area.
I disagree with much, maybe most, of the detailed policy proposals that John Gilmore is putting forward, but I like the idea of all of it.
grep.law.harvard.edu /article.pl?sid=04/08/18/112237   (6069 words)

  
 Salon.com Technology | It's time for ICANN to go
John Gilmore, original "cypherpunk" and all-around Internet supergeek, explains why the organization that runs the Internet is broken.
Gilmore has never been afraid to speak his mind on any issue, but the politics of Internet governance are particularly close to his heart.
Via e-mail, Salon talked with Gilmore, who, along with EFF, is currently helping to fund a lawsuit filed by Karl Auerbach against ICANN, demanding that the organization open its books to him.
www.salon.com /tech/feature/2002/07/02/gilmore   (969 words)

  
 Governor's Office - Black History Month - John Gilmore Riley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Educator John Gilmore Riley was born in 1857, to Sarah and James Riley, two slaves who lived in the "slave quarters" in downtown Tallahassee.
A little known historical and cultural gem, the John G. Riley historic house sits at the bottom of a hill in East downtown Tallahassee, at the corner of Meridian and Jefferson Streets.
Today the house is home to the John G. Riley Museum, which uses research, exhibits and a host of other activities to present and preserve the history of African-Americans in Tallahassee and the State of Florida from the Reconstruction Era through the Civil Rights Movement.
www.myflorida.com /myflorida/governorsoffice/black_history/bios/john_riley.html   (568 words)

  
 Gilmore v. Ashcroft -- FAA ID Challenge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
San Francisco - Civil libertarian John Gilmore today challenged as unconstitutional a secret federal rule that requires domestic US travelers to identify themselves.
On July 4, Southwest Airlines staff prevented Gilmore from boarding a pre-paid flight from Oakland to Washington, D.C, where he intended to petition the government to alter the ID check.
Gilmore is a businessman, civil libertarian, and philanthropist.
cryptome.org /freetotravel.htm   (595 words)

  
 Boing Boing: John Gilmore vs. Ashcroft begins today   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
At stake is nothing less than the right of Americans to travel freely in their own country -- and the exposure of 'secret law' for what it is: an abomination.
John made his fortune as a programmer and entrepreneur in the software industry.
Whereas most people in his position would have moved to a tropical island and lived a life of luxury, John chose to use his wealth to protect and defend the US Constitution.
www.boingboing.net /2004/08/16/john_gilmore_vs_ashc.html   (293 words)

  
 Edge: JOHN GILMORE
JOHN GILMORE is an entrepreneur disguised as a philanthropist.
He co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the "alt" newsgroups, the Cypherpunks, and 1989 open source company Cygnus Solutions.
And he refuses to "recycle" his trash — if it's worth it to you, you can recycle it.
www.edge.org /3rd_culture/bios/gilmore.html   (108 words)

  
 Granta: John Gilmore
John Gilmore was born and raised in Hollywood.
His varied career included a spell as child actor, poet, screenwriter, low-budget film director, and a journalist, until he found his calling as a true-crime writer and novelist.
The first and still the best book on the strangest of all officially unsolved murders in the annals of modern crime.
www.granta.com /authors/2399   (70 words)

  
 (John J. GILMORE - Joseph N.? GILMORE )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John J. John Jarrel GILMORE (Jr.) (22 AUG 1897 - 2 SEP 1897)
John Jarrel GILMORE (7 MAY 1907 - 2 SEP 1992)
John N. John N. John Simon GILMORE (9 AUG 1868 - 18 OCT 1952)
alumnus.caltech.edu /~dlg/IND0054.html   (100 words)

  
 The Official John Gilmore Site
Acclaimed internationally for his literary fiction, his hard-boiled true crime books and Hollywood memoirs, John Gilmore has a following that spans the globe from London to Tokyo, from Hong Kong to Hollywood.
"John Gilmore is the quintessential L.A. noir writer..." Sydney Morning Herald.
Serial killers and high-profile slayers such as Charles Manson, the Los Angeles "Ice Blonde" Barbara Graham, hitchhike murderer Billy Cook ("the kid with one bad eye and HARD LUCK knuckles"), Eddie Nash and John Holmes are explored in depth in Gilmore's books (see Crime Scenes (Black Dahlia murder), (Wonderland) and interviews.
www.johngilmore.com   (223 words)

  
 A Reply to John Gilmore
John Gilmore's piece in the May issue in response to Rivest's "devil's advocate" question "What's Wrong with Copy Protection?" makes some apologies for being too long.
But if they were, they should only be made for omitting discussion of several important matters and failing to mention several things really wrong.
Gilmore says is true, but it is also true that copy protection schemes suppress and injure much more than wrongful duplication of lawfully copyrighted content.
www.spectacle.org /0601/reeve.html   (1517 words)

  
 Marc Perkel Rantz: John Gilmore Fights Internal Passports - Secret Laws
A freedom loving patriot who is fighting secret laws and what is becoming internal passports to travel within the United Stated.
Dennis Roddy, Post-Gazette John Gilmore, beside a graffiti-covered wall, has his morning coffee at a shop that's one block from his San Francisco home.
And it's happened here and people don't even seem to know about it." From geek to riches The passage of John Gilmore from a bespectacled proto-nerd from Bradford, Pa., to the twice-wealthy privacy-rights pioneer of the dot.com West...
marc.perkel.com /archives/000686.html   (4058 words)

  
 FreeToTravel.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gilmore's comments to TSA and DHS on CAPPS-2.1 Privacy Act Notice, September 30, 2003.
Gilmore Ejected from British Airways Flight For Wearing a "Suspected Terrorist" Button - by John Gilmore (see also Press page.)
Thank you to John Young and Cryptome, an amazing archive on government, technology, and civil rights, for hosting this site in 2002 and early 2003.
freetotravel.org   (115 words)

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