A Post Mortem on the Iranian DigiNotar Attack
by Eva Galperin, Seth Schoen and Peter Eckersley
More facts have recently come to light about the compromise of the DigiNotar Certificate Authority, which appears to have enabled Iranian hackers to launch successful man-in-the-middle attacks against hundreds of thousands of Internet users inside and outside...
From the Ashes of Righthaven, the Promising Future of Digital Media
by Rainey Reitman and Kurt Opsahl
Copyright troll Righthaven's flawed business model—suing hundreds of bloggers and small websites for dubious cases of alleged copyright infringement of newspaper articles—appears to be grinding to an inexorable finish. But even as the Righthaven cases prove that litigation isn't going to...
EFF at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum
With the slogan 'Internet as a catalyst for change: access, development, freedoms and innovation', the sixth annual meeting of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum will take place in Nairobi, Kenya on 27-30 September 2011 at the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON). EFF staffers are participating in insightful...
FOIA Victory Will Shed More Light on Warrantless Tracking of Cell Phones
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday (pdf) that the government must turn over information from criminal prosecutions in which federal law enforcement agencies obtained cell-site location information without a warrant. The suit, filed as part of EFF’s FLAG Project and in conjunction with the ...
Speakeasy/Alcohol Liberation Front: Washington DC
Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Technology Liberation Front (TLF) for a special joint happy hour this Wednesday, September 14th in Washington DC!
EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston, who just argued the Jewel v NSA warrantless wiretapping case in front of the Ninth Circuit...
Judge Sanctions Copyright Troll Attorney for "Staggering Chutzpah"
Today, Northern District of Texas District Court Judge David C. Godbey granted EFF's and Public Citizen's sanctions motion against Evan Stone, attorney for Mick Haig Productions, who improperly issued subpoenas to ISPs without court permission in order to obtain the identities of alleged file sharers. The court's blistering...
Judge Shuts Down Another Mass Copyright Case, Characterizes Lawsuits as “Massive Collection Scheme”
In keeping with a growing trend, this week Federal Judge Bernard Zimmerman of the Northern District of California severed 5,010 Doe Defendants from a single case—effectively dismissing all but one defendant. EFF participated in the case as amicus.
This case, like many we’ve seen around...
MAG-Net August Digital Dialogue: Post 9-11 Internet Security, Privacy and Surveillance & the Attack on Our Civil Liberties
Join EFF Activism Director Rainey Reitman for a phonecast with Paromita Shah of the National Immigration Project and Imad Hamad of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. They'll be discussing the social, political, legal and ethical implications of increased online government and private sector surveillance in the wake of the tenth anniversary...
In South Korea, the Only Thing Worse Than Online Censorship is Secret Online Censorship
SPEAKEASY: NYC
Current Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) members and donors are invited to join Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian York and Senior Activist Richard Esguerra at a secret location in New York City for drinks on Sunday, September 11th. Both Jillian and Richard will be speaking...
