Part of the civil liberties argument, especially from groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was that parents who wanted to block sites could use their own content-filtering software, making government involvement unnecessary.

" Barlow describes it thus in his essay to announce the formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ( note the spatial metaphor ) in June, 1990:

The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder On the Electronic Frontier.

This is chiefly due to the 56-bit key size being too small ; in January, 1999, distributed. net and the Electronic Frontier Foundation collaborated to publicly break a DES key in 22 hours and 15 minutes ( see chronology ).

This prime allowed GIMPS to win the $ 100, 000 prize from Electronic Frontier Foundation for discovering a prime with more than 10 million decimal digits.

if the software is used to discover a prime number with at least 100 million decimal digits and wins the $ 150, 000 USD bounty offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

This is one reason why the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Torproject started the development of HTTPS Everywhere, which is included in the Tor Browser Bundle.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, opining that " In an ideal world, every web request could be defaulted to HTTPS ", has provided an add-on called HTTPS Everywhere for Mozilla Firefox that enables HTTPS by default for hundreds of frequently used websites.

In September 2008, mathematicians at UCLA participating in GIMPS won part of a $ 100, 000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for their discovery of a very nearly 13-million-digit Mersenne prime.

* 1990 – Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Surprised by the negative feedback, Microsoft revised and reissued the license after discussion with Hugh Hancock and an attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

* In 1995, he received the Chrysler Design Award for Innovation, and the Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the U. S. government on Bernstein's behalf ; the court ruled that source code was free speech, protected by the First Amendment.

Cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling discussed the affair in his non-fiction book The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier.

The case also helped to prompt the formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as well as spawning a new game, Hacker.

This highly controversial document was quickly dubbed " PATRIOT II " or " Son of PATRIOT " by the media and organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

** Steve Jackson Games is raided by the U. S. Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

In 1998, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, with assistance from the mailing list, built a $ 200, 000 machine that finds a Data Encryption Standard key in a few days, creating a government conspiracy ; details are in Cracking DES.

Online civil liberties organizations arranged protests against the bill, for example the Black World Wide Web protest which encouraged webmasters to make their sites ' backgrounds black for 48 hours after its passage, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign.

* Electronic Frontier Foundation

* Electronic Frontier Foundation, a U. S. non-profit advocacy group

John Gilmore ( born 1955 ) is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions.

Some, but not all, of the legal documents relating to the confiscation of the servers were unsealed by a Texas district court in August 2005, following legal action by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Digital rights advocacy groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation are concerned about this erosion of the privacy and anonymity of those who print.

* Electronic Frontier Foundation ( EFF ) Anonymity / Pseudonymity Archive

* Electronic Music Foundation

* The Bob Moog Memorial Foundation for Electronic Music

The Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee ( TEITAC ) met for the first time on September 27 – 29, 2006, at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Virginia.

The Student Electronic Notebook consisted of the Private Eye, Toshiba diskless AIX notebook computers ( prototypes ) and a stylus based input system plus virtual keyboard, and used direct-sequence spread spectrum radio links to provide all the usual TCP / IP based services, including NFS mounted file systems and X11, all running in the Andrew Project environment.

Electronic Field Production cameras were often mounted in studio configurations inside a mounting cage.

Electronic components are often mounted on a circuit board, and it is usually desirable to avoid damaging the circuit board, surrounding components, and the component being removed.

In 1998, a custom hardware attack was mounted against the Data Encryption Standard cipher by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Electronic parts are not usually mounted on this type of raised pickguard.

* 1999 – British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.

The defense group, centered around Fort Wayne, IN, remained independent under the Magnavox Electronic Systems name, first under Philips and later in the Carlyle Group, until it was acquired by Hughes Electronics in 1995.

Sunnyvale is also home to several aerospace / defense companies ; Lockheed Martin has a major facility in Sunnyvale, and Honeywell, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems-Marine Systems ( formerly Joshua Hendy Iron Works ), Finisar, and Spirent also have offices in Sunnyvale.

His defense was assisted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

For example, in 2002 and 2003 during the DeCSS legal proceedings it prosecuted Jon Lech Johansen, who was assisted in his defense by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and again in 2003 Økokrim arrested Mullah Krekar, alleged leader of the Kurdish Islamist group, Ansar al-Islam.

* 1996 – sells Westinghouse Electronic Systems defense business to Northrop Grumman for $ 3 billion ($ billion today ), becoming Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems

Also in 1997, Raytheon acquired the aerospace and defense business of Hughes Aircraft Company from Hughes Electronics Corporation — a subsidiary of General Motors, which included a number of product lines previously purchased by Hughes Electronics including the former General Dynamics missile business, the defense portion of Delco Electronics ( Delco Systems Operations ), and Magnavox Electronic Systems.

BAE Systems is also the largest foreign supplier to the United States Defense Department and has been permitted to buy important US defense companies such as Lockheed Martin Aerospace Electronic Systems and United Defense.

In 1993, Rafael Development Corporation ( RDC ), a technology transfer company, was established as a joint venture with Elron Electronic Industries ; in order to commercialize applications based on defense technologies for medical devices, telecommunications, and semiconductor industries.

After some major acquisitions in the mid-1990s by Hughes Electronics ( Magnavox Electronic Systems and PanAmSat ), GM divested most of Hughes assets from 1997 – 2003, including sale of defense operations to Raytheon in 1997, the spinoff of Delphi Automotive Systems in 1999, the divestiture of Hughes Space and Communications to Boeing in 2000, and acquisition of the remaining communications and satellite operations ( mostly DirecTV ) by NewsCorp in 2003.

Tracor was a major North American defense electronics contractor which was acquired by Marconi Electronic Systems ( MES ), a subsidiary of General Electric Company plc, in 1998.

Originally called ESI ( Electronic Systems International ), the company manufactured sub-assemblies for the Shrike and Sparrow missile in 1974, and just after the Vietnam war which was part of a standard arms contract for the US defense administration / ( DCAS ).

The Electronic Systems sector is a leading designer, developer, and manufacturer of a wide variety of advanced defense electronics and systems.

Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems provides airborne radar systems, secondary surveillance systems, inertial navigation systems and sensors, electronic warfare systems, precision weapons, air traffic control systems, air defense systems, communications systems, space systems, marine systems, naval systems, integrated avionics systems, and postal automation and information systems.

Prior to joining Ceridian in 1993, Turner served as President and CEO of GEC-Marconi Electronic Systems, a defense electronics company, from 1987 to 1993.