EFF15: Why Defend Digital Freedom?
In answer to that question, I composed the ditty below, inspired by my recent trip to Defcon. Ahem:Lawyers, Geeks, and Money (With apologies to Warren Zevon).Well, I hacked into the Cisco The way I always do How was I to know They'd call...
EFF15: How I Became a Geek Crusader
I hope you're not reading this blog entry using somebody's open wireless network. It could get you arrested for trespassing. Earlier this month, a Florida man was arrested for sitting outside somebody's house in his car and using their open wifi network. What the hell? The network...
EFF15: The Moment I "Clicked-Through" to the Copyfight
In 1997, I entered my first year of law school at UC Berkeley. At the time, I had a pretty open mind as to what I wanted to do with my life as a lawyer. I had done some work on gender issues in...
EFF15: Keep Blogging for Freedom; Seven More Days to Enter Contest
Blog-a-thon posts are surging -- if you haven't been following the inspiring tales through Technorati and Pubsub, you're missing out! To keep the momentum going and to give you another chance to enter your own story in EFF's contest, we've extended the Blog-a-thon submission deadline to August...
EFF15: The View From a Windowless Office
My digital liberties "click moment" is less a moment than a place -- a windowless basement office, to be precise. The office was home to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a research center at Harvard Law School, when I was a student. I had found...
EFF15: My Conversion Moment
(As part of the EFF15 Blog-a-thon, some EFF staff and interns will be posting stories explaining their personal connection to online freedom. For more posts in this series, click here. )It was February 1994, and I was reading what was then the ninth issue that WIRED magazine had...
EFF15: The Phone Call
(As part of the EFF15 Blog-a-thon, some EFF staff and interns will be posting stories explaining their personal connection to online freedom. For more posts in this series, click here. )Late one evening in 1994, when I was a fairly new attorney, EFF co-founder John Gilmore...
