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EFF at 36c3 (Chaos Communications Congress) Find EFF in Leipzig at the 36th year of one of the largest technology, security, and activism conferences in the world, Chaos Communication Congress . Learn how our team of lawyers, technologists, and activists are working to protect online rights, and connect with the larger international digital freedom community. We’ll be part of the About:Freedom Assembly  in the Rights & Freedoms Cluster, floor 0 in the CCL building, just after exiting the tube from the central Glass Hall, alongside other groups protecting freedom of expression and human rights around the world.  EFF’s Schedule Day 1 (Friday, 27 December) 14:00 – 16:00 EFF Booth Office Hours, about:freedom Come by the EFF booth in the about:freedom assembly to say hello, get or renew your EFF membership or ask about EFF’s work. Day 2 (Saturday, 28 December) 14:00 – 16:00 EFF Booth Office Hours, about:freedom 20:00-20:30 in Lectu...

No to Online Voting in Virginia Experts agree: Internet voting would be an information security disaster. Unfortunately, the Commonwealth of Virginia is considering a pair of bills to experiment with online voting. Pilot programs will do nothing to contradict the years of unanimous empirical research showing that online voting is inherently vulnerable to a variety of threats from malicious hackers, including foreign nations. EFF strongly opposes Virginia H.B. 2588 and S.J.R. 291, and all online voting. Instead, EFF recommends that absentee voting, like all voting, be conducted with paper records and risk-limiting audits , the current state-of-the art in election security. xkcd.com The first problem with Internet voting is the most basic: If citizens vote with their own phones and laptops, and those phones and laptops have malware on them, that malware can manipulate the vote. Consider all the spam in your inbox every day. Lots of it comes from compromised machines....