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- Tor 0.2.1.20 (Mac)
- Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Network, Relay, Tor, Internet, Networking, Security
- Software downloads 2009-11-01
- EFF challenges 'bogus' VoIP patent
- Spoil sports!How is a shyster suppose to make a living?WORK?Hmmm...I wonder if I could get a patent on filing patents?Just think...the whole world would then owe me money. Gotta start working on that right away. ;-)
- Tags: patent, Electronic Frontier Foundation, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- EFF challenges 'bogus' VoIP patent
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation says it has discovered a bogus patent, and will take the newly found evidence to the US Patent and Trademark Office to have the patent invalidated. The Electronic Frontier Foundation says it has discovered a bogus patent, and will take the newly found evidence to...
- Tags: VoIP, Electronic Frontier Foundation, patent, Eff, Acceris, Marguerite Reardon CNET News
- News items 2009-10-15
- EFF, ACLU says Google Books will chill reading, speech
- Better that it is entirely unavailablethan to make it available to anyone who cares to search for it. I have seen nowhere that the Google project will prevent any other source from digitizing books, or from keeping them in print. This is quite possibly THE stupidest argument I have heard...
- Tags: Google Inc., American Civil Liberties Union, privacy, Google Book, Vegas, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- EFF, ACLU says Google Books will chill reading, speech
- Google's ability to track users' browsing and book reading habits creates a dangerous temptation to government and private litigants, which will result in a chilling effect on free speech and robust academic research, a new amicus brief says. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Google Inc., Electronic Frontier Foundation, Speech, American Civil Liberties Union, Government, Vertical Industries, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Apple withdraws legal threats against Bluwiki
- OdioWorks LLC runs a free and open wiki service called BluWiki which has drawn threats from Apple's legal department for hosting a wiki for iTunesDB. Apple's issue is that iTunesDB is an attempt to learn about iTunes' database file system and create third-party software that can replicate...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Apple Inc., OdioWorks LLC, Wiki, Online Communications, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Wiretapping ruling protects carriers - not you
- Should companies be punished for letting the government wiretap your phone line? The courts don't think so. US District Court dismissed 46 civil suits filed against several of the major carriers, such as AT&T and Verizon, for allowing the National Security Agency to wiretap their networks without a court-issued wiretap....
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Carrier, Government, Vertical Industries, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Apple is being accused of stifling free speech; again
- In November 2008 Virginia-based OdioWorks, operator of BluWiki a non-commercial wiki that promises publishing without censorship, received a takedown notice from Apple demanding that it remove user postings about how to “write software that can sync media to the latest versions of the iPhone...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Apple iPod, DMCA, Apple Inc., Hash, Digital Media, Digital Music, Wiki, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- NSA targeted Americans' domestic calls, tried to wiretap Representative
- NSA targeted Americans for warrantless surveilliance, even tried to wiretap a Member of Congress. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Administration, Workforce Management, Advertising & Promotion, Government, Homeland Security, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- EFF's von Lohmann: YouTube worse than DMCA for fair use
- EFF's von Lohmann: YouTube worse than DMCA for fair useyou tube?You Tube is so yesterday.They are blowing themselves up right along with the corporation rent seekers.RE: EFF's von Lohmann: YouTube worse than DMCA for fair use"A way for people to get this taken seriously is to boycott YouTube in favor...
- Tags: You-Tube, fair use, YouTube Inc., von Lohmann, Lohmann, DMCA, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- EFF's von Lohmann: YouTube worse than DMCA for fair use
- I passed Jason's post about getting DMCA'd by Warner Music onto Fred von Lohmann at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. You'll recall that Jason and his wife put up on Vimeo a reunion slideshow with several tracks of music and that Warner Music Group promptly filed a DMCA take-down notice. Fred's...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, YouTube Inc., DMCA, Warner Music Group Corp., Fred, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- Mozilla, Skype join EFF in supporting jailbreakers
- Mozilla, Skype join EFF in supporting jailbreakersApple Makes the best Smart Phone. Now...... it needs to make the most open Smart Phone.The backlash against Apple is growingPeople are slowly beginning to realize that Apple, the multi-national, multi-billion $$$/year mega corporation, does [b]not[/b] have consumer rights in mind. They are...
- Tags: Web browsers, Strategy, Cellular phones, Mozilla Corp., Apple Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Discussion threads 2009-02-18
- Mozilla, Skype join EFF in supporting jailbreakers
- Software titans Mozilla and Skype have thrown their support behind the EFF and the iPhone jailbreaking community. A new filling with the US Copyright Office seeks an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DCMA related to iPhone jailbreaking. The exemption would strip Apple of its ability to charge...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Exemption, Skype Technologies S.A., Apple Inc., Mozilla Corp., Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Copyright battle over iPhone jailbreaks
- Nice piece from Saul Hansell in the Times around Apple's copyright claims on iPhone jailbreaking. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a filing PDF with the Copyright Office, urged an exception to copyright law that would allow customers to jailbreak the iPhone. Apple responded PDF, urging no exception. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Copyright Law, U.S. Congress, Apple Inc., Saul Hansell, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-02-15
- Internet stars come out for RIAA trial
- In RIAA lawsuit news, the Tennenbaum case â€" in which uber-lawyer Charles Nesson now represents the defendant â€" is taking an Internet star turn. Ray Beckerman reports that in a pretrial memo PDF, Nesson discloses that he intends to call some of the biggest legal names in digital rights. ...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, P2P, RIAA, Berkman Center, Charles Nesson, Internet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- 2^43,112,609 -1: Distributed computing finds largest prime yet
- GIMPS â€" the distributed computing Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search â€" has found and confirmed the largest prime number ever: 243,112,609-1. It has 13 million digits and gives the GIMPS project a $100,000 award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Science News reports. Because 243,112,609-1 has...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Prime, Distributed Computing, Mersenne, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-28
- EFF sues NSA over warrantless wiretaps
- EFF sues NSA over warrantless wiretapsCounter: two words"State Secret." The plaintiffs can't prove standing, thus no subject matter jurisdiction, thus dismissed.RE: EFF sues NSA over warrantless wiretapsWhats the point? Bush stole the last 2 elections, free elections no longer exist in the US, its all a sham orchestrated...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF Sues NSA, warrantless wiretap, wiretap
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- EFF sues NSA over warrantless wiretaps
- The EFF has filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency as a follow-up to its stymied suit against AT&T. Five individuals are lead plaintiffs in a suit seeking class action status against President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Cheney's chief of staff David Addington, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, AT&T Corp., Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Can a case be made against the Palin e-mail hacker?
- It's probably only a matter of time before the feds arrest the kid who allegedly hacked into Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account. If the news reports are true, it looks like fingers are pointing to the 20-year-old son of a Democratic state legislator in Tennessee. But, here's...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Service Component Architecture, U.S. Department Of Justice, Hacker, E-mail, Online Communications, Storage, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- MBTA published checksum info in court filings
- Something most troubling in the email exchange between Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer Jennifer Granick and MBTA attorney Leuan Mahony, posted by News.com. The essence is that MBTA itself included the MIT students' confidential report PDF to MBTA on their security weaknesses as an exhibit in their complaint and it is...
- Tags: Security, Card, Electronic Frontier Foundation, MBTA, Essence, CharlieTicket, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
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