Part two in a short series on EFF’s Open Source Security Audit
Our recent security audit of libpurple and related libraries got us thinking about the general problem of open source security auditing, and we wanted to share what we’ve learned. Free and open source software that happens...

Tomorrow, October 11, Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad will have reached the 50th day of his hunger strike. Arrested in March, Sanad was later sentenced, by a military court, to three years in prison for accusing the military of having conducted virginity tests on female protesters (a charge later found...

The European Parliament today formally recognized what has become increasingly clear: some European tech companies have been selling to repressive governments the tools used to surveil democracy activists. In response, it passed a resolution to bar overseas sales of systems that monitor phone calls and text messages, or provide...

A Virginia district court is the latest to call out a copyright troll for using a business model designed to be little more than a shakedown operation to extract quick and easy settlements from hundreds of thousands of John Doe defendants. Judge Gibney says it far better than...

Today, EFF joined nine human rights and digital freedom organizations from around the world in sending a letter to the government of Vietnam calling for the release of blogger and human rights defender Pham Minh Hoang.
Readers may remember Pham Minh Hoang from a blog post we wrote...

Update: A Spanish translation of this post is available here.
Chilling Speech Through Violence
Bloggers in the Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo are being terrorized by the Los Zetas drug cartel, which is trying to silence citizens who speak out against drug-related violence. On the...

The year was 1986. Top Gun was the top movie, Super Mario Bros. 2 was the hot videogame, practically no one had ever heard of email, and mobile phones were clunky and expensive novelties the size of a brick.
On October 21st of that year, the President signed...