Primer for Protesters and “Anti-Government Extremists”
From EFF: Cell Phone Guide For US Protesters, Updated 2014 Edition With major protests in the news again, we decided it’s time to update our cell phone guide for protestors. A lot has changed since we...
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EFF Launches Surveillance Self Defense Site
Surveillance Self Defense will teach you how to use technology and software to protect yourself and your data online. This is a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
View ArticleMozilla Working To Make Privacy Easier
The company that makes the Firefox web browser has a new privacy initiative. Today, we are excited to announce a new strategic initiative at Mozilla called Polaris. Polaris is a privacy initiative...
View ArticleUSA Freedom Act
The EFF gives a rundown of the bill and why it is important: The USA Freedom Act is a bill that was first proposedlast year by Senator Patrick Leahy and Representative Jim Sensenbrenner. The original...
View ArticleSurveillance State Repeal Act Introduced In House
From FreedomWorks: That’s why it’s so refreshing to see a bill like the Surveillance State Repeal Act. It’s bold and effective. Specifically, here is what the bill would do: Repeals the Patriot Act...
View ArticleDefense Distributed Sues State Department
From The New York Times: Now, with a high-powered legal team behind it, Mr. Wilson’s company,Defense Distributed, a self-described “anti-monopolist digital publisher,” has filed suit against the State...
View ArticleBritish Government Changes Law To Allow Themselves To Break Into Computers
From Hacker News: The UK Government has quietly changed the Anti-Hacking Laws quietly that exempt GCHQ, police, and other electronic intelligence agencies from criminal prosecution for hacking into...
View ArticleFeds Want To Restrict Talking About Guns On The Net
The State Department has proposed new ITAR rules that would cover merely talking about guns according to the NRA. From The Washington Examiner: …the NRA boiled it down for gun owners with this warning:...
View ArticleState Department Gun Regs Designed To Counter Defense Distributed Lawsuit
According to Sean Davis at The Federalist the new regulations are nothing more than retaliation against Defense Distributed: On June 3, just four weeks after Defense Distributed filed its complaint in...
View ArticleLastPass Servers Compromised
From Ars Technica: LastPass officials warned Monday that attackers have compromised servers that run the company’s password management service and made off with cryptographically protected passwords...
View ArticleDefense Distributed Injunction Against State Department Denied
From Reason.com: This week U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman denied a motion for a preliminary injunction against the State Department in the case of Defense Distributed v. U.S. Dep’t of State. Quotes...
View ArticleNRA Stands Up For First Amendment
From NRA-ILA: As we reported in June, the Obama Administration’s State Department (DOS) proposed a revision of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) on June 3 that would require anyone...
View ArticleWaPo: Printed Guns Will Lead To Printed Nukes
From The Washington Post: The ability to “print” or manufacture guns privately will allow individuals to bypass background checks, the primary way that guns are regulated today. And that challenge will...
View ArticleFourth Amendment Should Cover Your Digital Life
From Fox News: In an era of constant political gamesmanship and gridlock, getting things done in Congress is never easy. That was never clearer than the last Congress’ failure to pass long overdue...
View ArticleCody Wilson Versus The United States
From Fox News: The (15) members of Congress, led by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Kent., signed onto an amicus brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, where Texas inventor Cody Wilson is fighting a lower...
View ArticleEFF Files Brief In Support Of Defense Distributed’s 3-D Files
From EFF: The underlying legal ideas stretch back to one of EFF’s earliest major legal victories. Twenty years ago, in Bernstein v. U.S. Department of Justice, a judge articulated that code is speech...
View ArticleSharing Passwords May Now Be A Crime
From Motherboard: At issue is language in the CFAA that makes it illegal to access a computer system “without authorization.” McKeown said that “without authorization” is “an unambiguous, non-technical...
View ArticleChoosing A Strong Password Is Easier Than You Think
From EFF: Randomly-generated passphrases offer a major security upgrade over user-chosen passwords. Estimating the difficulty of guessing or cracking a human-chosen password is very difficult. It was...
View ArticleBlueprints Of Guns Not Allowed, Court Says
From Ars Technica: In a 2-1 decision, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals was not persuaded that Defense Distributed’s right to free speech under the First Amendment outweighs national security concerns....
View ArticleSignal App Subpoenaed For User Data
From Open Whisper Systems: In the “first half of 2016” (the most specific we’re permitted to be), we received a subpoena from the Eastern District of Virginia. The subpoena required us to provide...
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