The good folks at Engadget have invited me to get on their soapbox in a reader interview. If you have any questions you've been waiting to ask (but haven't wanted to grace my comments with), head on over and ask. I'll be answering in the next week or so. Thanks!
Posted by Wendy at September 28, 2004 02:17 PM | TrackBackHi Wendy... I submitted a question but didn't see it appear on the engadget site... so I'll just put it here... you can wait to answer it if it gets chosen, answer it now, or not at all. :)
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Hi, I was wondering what kind of long-term planning the EFF does. That is, where do you see your work and that of the EFF in 5-10 years? Will the scope of the EFF's work go much more beyond the legal arena? Does a model like the ACLU or the LWV (league of women voters) make sense for the EFF?
Another question: Often it seems like being an attorney is one of the best ways to affect change in the technology policy space. That is, some of us who know a great deal about the law (more so than some lawyers even) don't get the respect that we would get if we had (simply) gone to law school. And, knowing first hand, law school isn't all that difficult, mysterious or specialized even... it's basically like learning a few bodies of code, doctrine and prof. responsibility. How do non-lawyers get the cred. they need to operate in the policy space on an equal footing with lawyers?
Posted by: joe on September 28, 2004 04:46 PMah, engadget uses a comment confirmation feature... silly me!
Posted by: joe on September 28, 2004 04:48 PMI am going thru a divorce from an abusing spouse. My son recently went to college and loaned me his computer to use while gone so I would have a computer that spouse could not use.
Spouse hacked the password and copied emails from/to my attorney, family, friends, journal entries, letters, creative non-fiction, log of websites and financial account passwords and emailed them to himself. From there, it turns out, he emailed them to his attorney and to his relatives. He emailed copies of other people's emails to me as well as ones I wrote. He "stole" email addresses and tried to look up identities. He "stole" my son's cell number and email address after son refused to give them to him and has tried to contact him.
He did this at least twice.
The local police said they felt it was wrong but not neccisarily illegal but that they were not familiar with the laws on email.
Any help? It feels creepy and scary to be kept under surveillance.
CJ
