Donate to the EFF

Re:Donate to the EFF by rdl on Thursday June 06, 2013 @09:55PM (#5836673)

Running a remailer or Tor node, or somehow deploying crypto (opportunistic crypto if you can't do anything better) is a lot more useful than donating to the EFF, at this point.

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Re:Donate to the EFF by dannyobrien on Friday June 07, 2013 @03:38AM (#5837749)

Remember that EFF funded Tor for a year[1] to help it get started, and currently codes and releases HTTPS Everywhere [2] to increase opportunistic crypto for everyone. Your donation[3] will fund open source technological solutions, as well as legal work and activism.

(Disclosure: I work for EFF)

[1] http://www.onion-router.net/History.html (2004) [2] https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere [3] https://supporters.eff.org/donate

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Re:Donate to the EFF by rdl on Friday June 07, 2013 @09:49AM (#5838839)

Yes, but I think an individual spending 1-2h/yr running a tor node or remailer is a far greater impact than donating a marginal $25-50 to EFF. An additional node both makes the network stronger and sends a message/educates the operator on privacy issues.

I'm not convinced a marginal dollar donated to the EFF does that much right now -- EFF is great, but fairly well funded.

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