EFF Ad in Wired: Tech Community Must Secure Networks Against Trump Administration

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> Date: December 20, 2016 at 10:00:14 AM EST
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> Subject: [E-B] EFF Ad in Wired: Tech Community Must Secure Networks Against Trump Administration
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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2016
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> EFF Ad in Wired: Tech Community Must Secure Networks Against Trump Administration
> President-Elect Threatens Free and Open Internet
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> SAN FRANCISCO - In a full-page advertisement in Wired magazine, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has a 
> warning for the technology community: “Your threat model just changed.”
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> EFF’s open letter calls on technologists to secure computer networks against overreaches by the upcoming Trump 
> administration and to protect a free, secure, and open Internet. The January issue of Wired with EFF’s open letter on 
> page 63 hit newsstands today.
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> “Our goal is to rally everyone who makes digital tools and services to this important cause: protect your technology 
> and networks from censorship and government surveillance,” said EFF Activism Director Rainey Reitman. “The Internet 
> was created to connect and empower people around the world. We cannot let it be conscripted into a tool of 
> oppression. But if we are going to protect the Internet, we need a lot of help. Wired has been looking to the 
> technological future for over two decades, and its readers have the skills we need.”
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> EFF’s open letter outlines four major ways the technology community can help: using encryption for every user 
> transaction; practicing routine deletion of data logs; revealing publicly any government request to improperly 
> monitor users or censor speech; and joining the fight for user rights in court, in Congress, and beyond.
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> “EFF has fought for the rights of creators and users since 1990—through four presidential administrations,” said EFF 
> Executive Director Cindy Cohn. “We’ve battled privacy invasions, censorship attempts, and power grabs from Democrats 
> and Republicans alike. Now, President-Elect Trump has promised to increase surveillance, undermine security, and 
> suppress the freedom of the press. But he needs your servers to do this. Join us in securing civil liberties in the 
> digital world, before it’s too late.”
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> For the full ad in Wired:
> https://supporters.eff.org/files/eff_wired_ad_2016.png
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> For more on how the tech community can defend users:
> https://www.eff.org/defend-users
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> For this release:
> https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-ad-wired-tech-community-must-secure-networks-against-trump-administration
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