John Gilmore is the co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is one of the original Cypherpunks, an informal group dedicated to public education and dissemination of cryptography, as well as a founder of Cygnus Support. Gilmore also co-founded the ``alt'' newsgroups on the Usenet, along with Brian Reid and Gordon Moffett, to provide a forum for discussions that the ``mainstream'' Usenet refused to handle, like sex, drugs, and gourmet cooking.