Inside the Electronic Frontier Foundation

First time accepted submitter qwerdf writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation's goal is 'defending your rights in the digital world', and its activities span the full gamut of freedom fighting: providing help with court cases; issuing white papers that explain current threats; running campaigns to spread awareness of various issues; and developing technologies that make our online activities safer from prying eyes. Here's a short history of how the EFF came together, what it has done so far, and how it's preparing for upcoming battles."

Re:Money well spent

[Anonymous Coward]

they aren't really bad guys

i just wonder if they dont suffer from cognitive dissonance from being such flaming libertarians
and appealing to the government at the same time

Different focus these days

[Anonymous Coward]

The EFF seems to be more interested in defending copyright cases than defending other civil liberties. Almost completely silent on tracking and surveillance - but if some 30 year old is seeding copies of the latest Pixar movie off his work computer and gets fired, the EFF will be in there faster than you can say Stallman. At least the ACLU gives a shit. The EFF has just become a Google trade group.

Re:EFFail

[cervesaebraciator]

Their failure is also the failure of the pro-freedom community. As a pro-2nd amendment guy, I'm glad that I've groups like the GOA [wikipedia.org] and NRA in my corner. I hope the EFF will receive similar support [eff.org] from those whose rights it defends.

Re:Small factual error?

[angry tapir]

I remember the story from Bruce Sterling's book [gutenberg.org] on Operation Sundevil. It's a great read and had a huge impact on me when I was young.

Re:Shame that Slashdot blocks Tor

[fustakrakich]

It would help a little if the use of TOR wasn't so obvious. TOR needs to do something to disguise itself a bit better. Slashdot (or anybody else) shouldn't know when you're using it.