John Gilmore: Press Mentions
Many aren't on the web, and most of the web ones aren't indexed here, but here are a few:
- September 22, 2007: Washington Post's Ellen Nakashima on the front page: Collecting of Details on Travelers Documented: U.S. Effort More Extensive Than Previously Known. My Identity Project got my travel records from the Homeland Security zealots, and they included what book I was reading and what flashlights I was carrying.
- March 2007: The Guardian: Host not found. Discusses censorship and privacy violation in the Internet of 2007.
- September 2004: AP's David Kravets: Feds Won't Acknowledge 'No Fly' List Exists. TSA is still trying to drag my case into a secret court despite being rebuffed by sane judges.
- September 2004: Oakland Tribune's Sean Holstege: Judges: Security fight must be in open. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) tries to convene a secret court for a secret trial of my lawsuit about their secret regulations that prevent ordinary non-secret citizens from traveling unless they bring their Nazi paperwork (I mean their government-issued photo ID). The judges decide to have an ordinary trial, open to the public.
- January '03: News.com: Hail to the...spammer-in-chief? I receive spam from Joe Lieberman, a presidential candidate. Declan McCullagh reports.
- January 18, 2003: San Jose Mercury's Aaron Davis writes Privacy activist argues against air-travel ID rule, covering the same hearing as below.
- January 18, 2003: Wired News's Julia Scheeres covers my lawsuit seeking to overturn unconstitutional demands that travelers provide government-issued ID, in Judge to Hear Air ID Challenge
- August '02: SF Bay Guardian picks me as a Local Hero, and picks EFF as the Best Way to Safeguard Your Freedom Online.
- January '02: L.A. Times: Freedom Fighters of the Digital World, talking about EFF's efforts to protect civil liberties despite anti-terrorism crap shoved down americans' sheeplike throats by government thugs -- and about how I was the only one to ask about those hundreds of people imprisoned without trials, charges, or bail: "Are all the civil rights organizations afraid to step up to defend potential terrorists?"
- October '00: Scientific American, p. 36, in the sidebar "How Publius Thwarts Censors", saying that the net routes around censorship.
- June '00: USA Today: Identity swapping makes privacy relative, about consumers lying to web sites, and trading supermarket identity cards, to foil snoopy companies.
- June '00: USA Today reporter Elizabeth Weise's Tech Report talks about the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that affirms First Amendment protection for software source code.
- Jan '00: USA Today's Mike Snider says Free speech at issue in DVD piracy suits
- Mar '99: USA Today: Judge: Encryption is protected speech about EFF's win in the Bernstein case, declaring that "Government restrictions on exporting computer encryption programs violate free speech rights."
- Jan '99: USA Today: Encryption code cracked in three days about the DES Cracker.
- Jan '99: USA Today's A maverick cracks the code about the DES Cracker, and other parts of my life. A sidebar quotes me and David Wagner about the original meaning of "hacker".
- November '96: Wired's Electric Word section (pg. 43) covers my S/WAN project.
- August '96: My Brain Tennis match on the right to privacy, against Dorothy Denning, in HotWired.
- July '96: My letter to the editor of the Economist on domain name policy.
- Early '96: My interview for the Marc Canter Show.
- February '96: Wired's Rogier van Bakel covers Digital Telephony: How Good People Helped make A Bad Law.
- June '94: Wired's Josh Quittner covers EFF: The Merry Pranksters Go to Washington. The "Spy vs. Nerd" cover story.
- May '93: Wired's Steven Levy covers the Cypherpunks: Crypto Rebels. That's Tim May, Eric Hughes, and me on the cover, behind masks representing privacy. One of the sidebars is about my Freedom of Information tug-of-war with NSA over some documents.

