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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Julian Assange	Hacker	3-Jul-1971		Founder of Wikileaks
Jim Bell	Activist	6-Apr-1958		Assassination Politics
Bram Cohen	Computer Programmer	1975		Creator of BitTorrent
John Gilmore	Activist	Aug-1955		Cofounder: EFF, Cypherpunks
Mike Godwin	Attorney	26-Oct-1956		Former General Counsel, Wikimedia
Declan McCullagh	Journalist	1971		CNET Senior Editor
Bruce Schneier	Computer Programmer	15-Jan-1964		Applied Cryptography
John Young	Architect	c. 1936		Cryptome
Phil Zimmermann	Computer Programmer	12-Feb-1954		Creator of PGP

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