UPDATE: Judging will take place in the Contests and Events main hall at Bally's at 5 PM on Saturday, August 8, 2015.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is proud to present the DEF CON 23 Badge Hack Pageant (1337 skills required, swimsuit optional). Now is the time to bring out...

We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and we're thrilled to be celebrating a quarter-century of fighting for digital rights.We're kicking off this milestone in two ways: a membership drive and a party and minicon in San Francisco on July 16. We're asking people to donate and become members because...

Padmapper and 3Taps ended their three-year legal fight with craigslist on Monday, agreeing to stop using classified ad data from craigslist on their own sites. 3Taps has also agreed to pay craigslist $1 million on the condition that craigslist donate the money to EFF. While we’re pleased...

Sadly, today the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the Federal Circuit’s dangerous decision in Oracle v. Google. Oracle claims a copyright on the Java Application Programming Interface (API), and that Google infringed that copyright by using certain Java APIs in the Android OS. The Federal...

EFF has long condemned the Vietnamese government's crackdown on bloggers, including the imprisonment of high-profile blogger and activist Le Quoc Quan. Our support for freedom of expression in Vietnam has even earned us the attention of the Vietnamese government, which attempted to compromise our employees' computers by sending...