CALEA , Internet Back doors, Journalism Ethics- EFF.org

-FCC recent mandate for "backdoors" is fueled by recent Appeals Court petition by Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). Seeking expansion of information access to broadband ISPs and VoIP providers, CALEA is forcing the creation of insecure backdoors into networks for easier crime tracing and thereby violating innocent party privacies.

CALEA Goes to College:
Schools are balking against the costs of wire-tapping their
students.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/technology/23college.html


Committee to Protect Bloggers posts graphical link for Free Omid

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Sign the petition to keep Iranian blogger Omid Sheikhan out of
prison

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Reporters sans frontières (RSF) has released the Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents which includes a chapter on choosing a censorship circumvention/anonymity solution that works for your specific needs.