Is someone really trying to find out if they can destroy the internet?
A prolonged Internet outage affecting major sites like Twitter, Netflix, Spotify and The New York Times on friday has commentators concerned that this is was a practice run for future, more widespread disruption of the internet. The distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) targeted the dynamic domain name service provider Dyn and came in three […]
The IANA transition – an explainer
The IANA transition is an important event that is vital for the Internet, but if you hadn’t been told about it you wouldn’t notice it. The change is fundamental, but will change relatively little day to day. IANA is a collection of jobs, mostly administrative, that sit at the core of the Internet. IANA stands […]
An Open Letter to the Liberal and Labor Parties on copyright reform
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA), Australia’s leading digital rights advocacy organisation, has long campaigned for positive reform to Australia’s Copyright Act. EFA believes that Australia’s Copyright Act is unnecessarily inflexible and no longer fit for purpose in an increasingly digital world. This inflexibility means that technological and service innovations are often unable to be brought to […]
An Open Letter to the Liberal and Labor Parties on encryption and privacy technologies
In January 2016 Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA), along with the Australian Privacy Foundation, Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, BluePrint for Free Speech and FutureWise wrote to Prime Minister Turnbull asking for his support for strong encryption and for his commitment to reject any law, policy or mandate that would undermine digital security. The response received […]
Pirate, Science & Greens Parties lead on Digital Rights in 2016
EFA today releases its 2016 Election Policy Scorecard, which rates nine parties on their policy positions relating to the primary digital rights issues. Pirate Party Australia and the Australian Greens again score full marks, as they did in 2013. This year, they’re joined by the Science Party in achieving that score. EFA’s 2016 Election Policy […]