The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has in recent years become a household name for many people. They’re a digital rights group who has campaigned extensively for net neutrality, and was instrumental in the fight against SOPA and PIPA a few months ago. Now, they’ve decided to weigh in on the massive Apple vs Samsung case [...]

Despite its name, the Onion Browser isn’t another app for the satirical news site The Onion. The Onion Browser, released yesterday, is an app that allows you to surf on the Internet using The Onion Router (Tor for short) which encrypts your web traffic and passes it off to other nodes in the network, effectively [...]

The Electronics Frontier Federation has announced a new bill that tackles issues pertaining to mobile privacy. This bill is aimed at all the mobile manufacturers who are legally responsible for a users mobile privacy. The EFF published this bill due to the recent mayhem caused by the social networking app Path. It was later discovered that many [...]

Earlier in January we told you that the EFF were fighting to renew the DMCA exemption that made Jailbreaking mobile devices legal. The EFF are even fighting to make Jailbreaking tablets and consoles legal, by adding new exemptions to the DMCA. Engadget recently had the chance to sit down with the staff attorney of the EFF, [...]

Few days ago, we told you about the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) helping in keeping jailbreaking legal. This was in regard to the expiration of the Jailbreaking exemption to the DMCA added on July 2010. Now, it’s high time that users who support jailbreaking and want to continue jailbreaking to take action and send your comments to the Copyright offices [...]

July of 2010 was a proud day for the Jailbreaking Community, as the United States government ruled in favour of making Jailbreaking and Unlocking Mobile devices legal (adding an exemption to the DMCA). The only restriction to this new law, put in place to make Jailbreaking legal, was that it could not be carried out for [...]

Jailbreakers everywhere should look up to the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). You see, back in July of 2010 the EFF helped pass a law that made Jailbreaking (gaining root access) to Apple iOS devices legal in the United States. Jailbreaking could not have progressed as much as it had, if it all, if this law [...]

If you have not heard of GeoHot’s legal battle between Sony I would be surprised. It seems like only yesterday we were given word hacker GeoHot would be facing Sony in court for releasing the PlayStation 3 jailbreak over the internet. It was a bumpy ride for GeoHot and though GeoHot claimed he would win [...]