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The Playpen Cases: Mass Hacking by U.S. Law Enforcement

In December 2014, the FBI received a tip from a foreign law enforcement agency that a Tor Hidden Service site called “Playpen” was hosting child pornography. The site's actual IP address was publicly available and appeared to resolve to a location within the U.S. After some additional investigation, the FBI...

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry | August 13, 2016

The FCC Can't Save Community Broadband -- But We Can

Last year, while most of us were focused on the FCC’s Open Internet Order to protect net neutrality, the FCC quietly did one more thing: it voted to override certain state regulations that inhibit the development and expansion of community broadband projects. The net neutrality rules have since been ...

Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker, Nate Cardozo | August 12, 2016

We Shouldn’t Wait Another Fifteen Years for a Conversation About Government Hacking

With high-profile hacks in the headlines and government officials trying to reopen a long-settled debate about encryption, information security has become a mainstream issue. But we feel that one element of digital security hasn’t received enough critical attention: the role of government in acquiring and exploiting vulnerabilities and hacking for...

Event | August 13, 2016

Free Bassel Picnic

Bassel Khartabil is a technologist and free culture advocate who has been unjustly detained by the Syrian authorities since the beginning of the civil war. His many friends, colleagues and connected organizations, including EFF, have been calling for information on his whereabouts and his release.
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