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A key legal linchpin for the National Security Agency’s vast Internet surveillance program is scheduled to disappear in under 90 days. Section 702 of FISA —enacted in 2008 with little public awareness about the scope and power of the NSA’s surveillance of the Internet—supposedly directs the NSA’s powerful surveillance apparatus toward legitimate foreign intelligence targets overseas. Instead, the surveillance has been turned back on us. Despite repeated inquiries from Congress, the NSA has yet to publicly disclose how many Americans...
All this week, EFF is at the annual general meeting of ICANN , the global multi-stakeholder regulatory authority for Internet domain names and IP addresses. Our focus during this meeting is on speaking out against the increasing use of the domain name system as a mechanism for content censorship. During two presentations on Tuesday, we presented this in the form of a short and simple message to ICANN, to the registries who operate its top-level domains, and the registrars who...
Keeping Your Site Alive , our guide for keeping your site online amidst a DoS (denial of service) or DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack, now has a new look and new advice. The guide, originally created and updated in conjunction with the Tactical Technology Collective , is aimed at human rights defenders, independent publications, and other administrators of small websites. DDoS attacks are a common phenomena, used by a variety of actors, designed to temporarily or indefinitely prevent a...
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