EFFector       Vol. 13, No. 7       Sep. 8, 2000       [email protected]

  A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation     ISSN 1062-9424

 IN THE 155th ISSUE OF EFFECTOR (now with over 25,000 subscribers!):

    * New EFF Offices & Address as of Oct. 2000
    * Sep. 11 "BayFF" Meeting Celebrates RSA Patent Expiration
    * EFF Now Accepts e-gold & PayPal Transactions for Memberships
    * Administrivia

  For more information on EFF activities & alerts: http://www.eff.org
    _________________________________________________________________

New EFF Offices & Address as of Oct. 2000

  EFF is relocating as of Oct. 1, 2000 to new office space. We remain on
  the cusp of the Mission and Potrero Districts in San Francisco. The
  office is retrofitted warehouse space that will allow our staff to
  nearly double in size, and which will be more convenient to visitors,
  as it will be ground-floor and have a waiting and reception area.

  Construction is being handled in-house by our indomitable asst.
  webmaster Henry "Owlswan" Schwan, who is incidentally a licensed
  contractor. Progress on the cleanup and buildout can be followed by
  interested members here:
  http://www.eff.org/Misc/Graphics/pics/eff/newhome.html

  Our phone numbers should remain the same, and our site should be up
  continuously during the transition. (VA Linux has generously donated
  us a secondary server; during the move, the new box will transparently
  become eff.org temporarily, while the original server is switched off
  and moved). Site visitors should experience no difficulties during the
  transition.

  New contact info:

    Electronic Frontier Foundation
    454 Shotwell Street
    San Francisco CA 94110 USA
    +1 415 436 9333 (voice)
    +1 415 436 9993 (fax)

  We will have a forwarding order in place, but for best results send
  any postal mail to the Shotwell Street address starting Sep. 23, 2000.
  FedEx and other 1st- or 2nd-day delivery packages should be sent to
  the old address until Sep. 30.

  The move is happening both because we desperately need more space, and
  because our current lease is up, and the price, should we renew it,
  would be much higher. In our new location we are actually paying
  considerably less per square foot that we would if we were to stay in
  our current building (which has no room for expansion anyway). LAN
  cabling will also be handled in-house. Members can rest assured that
  their donations are not being unduly consumed by moving-related
  overhead.

  EFF's Washington DC branch office will also relocate soon. Details
  forthcoming.

    _________________________________________________________________

Sep. 11 "BayFF" Meeting Celebrates RSA Patent Expiration

   Media Advisory

 Whit Diffie and Dave Del Torto Speak of the RSA Algorithm's Past and Future

  WHO: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Whit Diffie, Dave Del Torto and
  music by NSA
  WHAT: "BayFF" Meeting on RSA Patent Expiration
  WHEN: Monday September 11th, 2000 at 7:30PM
  WHERE: Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, Burlingame CA,
  +1 650 347 1234
  See DIRECTIONS below.

  In honor of its 10th Anniversary of defending civil liberties online,
  EFF presents a series of monthly meetings to address important issues
  where technology and policy collide. These meetings, entitled "BayFF,"
  kicked off on July 10th and will continue throughout the year. The
  upcoming BayFF features famed cryptographer Whitfield Diffie and
  MEconomy's Master of Secrets, Dave Del Torto. They will help us
  celebrate the RSA patent's expiration on September 20th, 2000. How
  will these changes effect the public at large? What are the benefits?
  Are there any drawbacks?

  Whitfield Diffie, who holds the position of Distinguished Engineer at
  Sun Microsystems, is best known for his 1975 discovery of the concept
  of public key cryptography, for which he was awarded a Doctorate in
  Technical Sciences (Honoris Causa) by the Swiss Federal Institute of
  Technology in 1992. Diffie received a Bachelor of Science degree in
  mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965.

  For a dozen years prior to assuming his present position in 1991,
  Diffie was Manager of Secure Systems Research for Northern Telecom,
  functioning as the center of expertise in advanced security
  technologies throughout the corporation. Since 1993, Diffie has worked
  largely in public policy, in the area of cryptography.

  Dave Del Torto's career in Internet privacy and security started in
  the late 1980s at the University of California at Berkeley, where he
  was one of the original "Cypherpunks." He joined Pretty Good Privacy
  Inc. (PGP) as a founding employee in 1996, and in 1997 was part of the
  four-man team that published the entire PGP source code in 13 paper
  volumes, which resulted in the first legal international PGP freeware
  (exports of 128-bit crypto have since been greatly deregulated).

  He currently serves as the Executive Director of the CryptoRights
  Foundation (a human rights security organization) and is the Chief
  Security Officer of MEconomy, Inc., a privacy infomediary company
  based in San Francisco.

  **** You can subscribe to receive future BayFF annoucements. To
  subscribe, email [email protected] and put this in the text (not the
  subject line): subscribe bayff.

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) is the leading
  civil liberties organization working to protect rights in the digital
  world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges
  industry and government to support free expression, privacy, and
  openness in the information society. EFF is a member-supported
  organization and maintains one of the most-linked-to Web sites in the
  world.

  For more information on online privacy, see:
  http://www.eff.org/Privacy
    _________________________________________________________________

   DIRECTIONS

  Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport
  1333 Bayshore Highway
  Burlingame, CA 94010
  (650) 347-1234

  From: San Francisco or SFO Airport
   1. Highway 101 South
   2. Exit: Millbrae Ave. East
   3. Go over the Overpass - toward the Bay (east)
   4. Turn right at stoplight - onto Bayshore Highway
   5. Go through 4 stoplights
   6. Hyatt will be visible on right side of the street

  From: San Jose
   1. Highway 101 North
   2. Exit: Broadway, stay to the right
   3. Turn left at the stoplight - onto Bayshore Highway
   4. Go through 1 stoplight
   5. Hyatt will be visible on left side of the street

  From: Lower East Bay
   1. Highway 880 South (Nimitz Freeway)
   2. Exit: Highway 92 (San Mateo Bridge)
   3. Exit: 101 North
   4. Exit: Broadway, stay to the right
   5. Turn left at the stoplight - onto Bayshore Highway
   6. Go through 1 stoplight
   7. Hyatt will be visible on left side of the street

  From: Oakland/Berkeley
   1. Highway 80 West (over the Bay Bridge)
   2. Highway 101 South
   3. Exit: Millbrae Ave. East
   4. Go over the overpass - toward the Bay (east)
   5. Turn right at stoplight - onto Bayshore Highway
   6. Go through 4 stoplights
   7. Hyatt will be visible on right side of the street

   Contact:

    John Marttila - EFF Administrative Assistant
    +1 415 436 9333 x104
    [email protected]

    _________________________________________________________________

EFF Now Accepts e-gold & PayPal Transactions for Memberships

  See:
     http://www.eff.org/support
  to join EFF via PayPal, e-gold, or other means.

  e-gold is a free-to-users web-based online payment system, in which
  gold and other precious metals are "banked" and exchanged in lieu of
  dollars or other government-issued currency. When you "spend" us some
  gold or palladium, EFF's e-gold account is credited with that amount
  of commodity metal, which we can then easily exchange for only a very
  small transaction fee and turn back into dollars to pay for legal
  cases and other work.

  PayPal is a free-to-users online payment system through which one can
  effectively e-mail someone else money, in a secure fashion. It is very
  easy to use, and works either through credit cards or bank withdrawals
  on the back end (or via "stored" money in PayPal; e.g. if you sold
  something on an online auction house and were payed via PayPal, you
  could donate some of those funds to EFF without any interaction
  between PayPal and your bank account or credit card, since the money
  is already in the PayPal system). In essence it is basically a virtual
  bank account and alternative electronic funds transfer system.
  Currently it only supports US users, but this is going to change very
  soon according to their press releases.

  PayPal's privacy policy is better than most, and they do not appear to
  have any designs on spamming their users or selling their information
  to anyone else. e-gold's privacy policy seems to match ours exactly,
  other than e-gold may send you mailings about your account and their
  services unless you opt out, which is easy to do. Even so, EFF does
  not officially endorse PayPal or e-gold over other online transaction
  services. We support e-gold and PayPal transactions on our site
  because an increasing number of members have requested them. We plan
  to add additional membership/donation transactions options in the
  future.

  If you would like to use e-gold but do not already have an account
  with them, you can sign up at this URL:
  https://www.e-gold.com/e-gold.asp?cid=102948
  By doing so, rather than by signing up through the e-gold front page,
  you can effectively add a small amount to your donation, free (e-gold,
  has a rather complicated-in-the-details but automatic referrer bonus
  program).

  If you would like to use PayPal but do not already have an account
  with them, you can sign up at this URL:
  https://secure.paypal.x.com/affil/pal=accounting%40eff.org
  By doing so, rather than by signing up through the PayPal front page,
  you can effectively add $5 to your donation, free (PayPal, for the
  time being, is giving $5 "referral bonuses" automatically; you don't
  have to add the $5 your total manually).

  If you are planning to make a large donation, you may wish to send a
  check, as PayPal and any credit card-based system incur 2-5% fees to
  EFF, effectively reducing the amount of your member donation to us.
  (e-gold doesn't.)

  Thank you for your support! Without it, our work on the DVD cases,
  stopping Internet censorship legislation, and protecting online
  privacy could not continue!

    _________________________________________________________________

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