Security

Computer security and the lack of computer security is a fundamental issue that underpins much of how the Internet does (and doesn't) function. Many of the policy issues that EFF works on are linked to security in deep ways including privacy and anonymity, DRM, censorship, and network neutrality. EFF works directly on a wide range of security issues including increased deployment of cryptographic protocols through projects like Certbot; improving the security of those protocols; offering legal assistance to researchers through our Coders' Rights Project; offering practical security advice to activists through the surveillance self-defense project; and working on the development of new security standards.

Security Topics

●State-Sponsored Malware ●2g ●Computer Fraud And Abuse Act Reform ●Election Security ●Electronic Frontier Alliance ●Encrypting the Web ●Government Hacking and Subversion of Digital Security ●Security Education ●SOPA/PIPA: Internet Blacklist Legislation

Security Highlights

Issues

Encrypting the Web

The web has largely switched from non-secure HTTP to the more secure HTTPS protocol. All web servers use one of these two protocols to get web pages from the server to your browser. HTTP has serious problems that make it vulnerable to eavesdropping and content hijacking. HTTPS fixes most of... Banner Graphic:

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Surveillance Self-Defense

Description: Surveillance Self-Defense is EFF's online guide to defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices.

Issues

Coders' Rights Project

EFF's Coders' Rights Project protects programmers and developers engaged in cutting-edge exploration of technology. Security and encryption researchers help build a safer future for all of us using digital technologies, but too many legitimate researchers face serious legal challenges that prevent or inhibit their work. These challenges come from laws...

Security Updates

Deeplinks Blog byAlexis Hancock, Thorin Klosowski | March 5, 2025

Simple Phish Bait: EFF Is Not Investigating Your Albion Online Forum Account

We recently learned that users of the Albion Online gaming forum have received direct messages purporting to be from us. That message, which leverages the fear of an account ban, is a phishing attempt.If you’re an Albion Online forum user and receive a message that claims to be from...

Photo of Ron Deibert and Chasing Shadows Book Cover

Deeplinks Blog byMelissa Srago | February 27, 2025

EFF In Conversation With Ron Deibert on Chasing Shadows

Join EFF's Cindy Cohn and Eva Galperin in conversation with Ron Deibert of the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, to discuss Ron’s latest book: Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion and the Global Fight for Democracy.

Deeplinks Blog byCooper Quintin | February 18, 2025

Crimson Memo: Analyzing the Privacy Impact of Xiaohongshu AKA Red Note

Early in January 2025 it seemed like TikTok was on the verge of being banned by the U.S. government. In reaction to this imminent ban, several million people in the United States signed up for a different China-based social network known in the U.S. as RedNote, and in China...

Deeplinks Blog byJason Kelley | February 11, 2025

EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to Halt Ransacking of Federal Data

EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of millions of Americans that is stored by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and to delete any data that has...

Deeplinks Blog byAlexis Hancock | February 5, 2025

Closing the Gap in Encryption on Mobile

It’s time to expand encryption on Android and iPhone. With governments around the world engaging in constant attacks on user’s digital rights and access to the internet, removing glaring and potentially dangerous targets off of people’s backs when...

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