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{{Short description|American writer, engineer and scientist (1951β2018)}} {{redirect|Timothy May|the Australian cricketer|Tim May}} '''Timothy C. May''', better known as '''Tim May''' (December 21, 1951 β December 13, 2018) was an American technical and political writer, and electronic engineer and senior scientist at [[Intel]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Greenberg|first=Andy|title=This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information|year=2012|publisher=Dutton Adult|isbn=978-0525953203|pages=[https://archive.org/details/thismachinekills0000gree/page/384 384]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/thismachinekills0000gree/page/384}}</ref> May was also the founder of the [[crypto-anarchist]] movement.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Timothy C. May {{!}} Satoshi Nakamoto Institute|url=https://nakamotoinstitute.org/authors/timothy-c-may/|access-date=2020-11-02|website=nakamotoinstitute.org|date=1988 |archive-date=2020-12-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202034814/https://nakamotoinstitute.org/authors/timothy-c-may/|url-status=live}}</ref> He retired from Intel in 1986 at age 35 and died of natural causes at his home on December 13, 2018 at age 66.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/obituaries/timothy-c-may-dead.html|title=Timothy C. May, Early Advocate of Internet Privacy, Dies at 66|last=Popper|first=Nathaniel|date=2018-12-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-12-26|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2019-06-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190604210742/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/obituaries/timothy-c-may-dead.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
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