Related link: http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-000003207jan13.story

The LA Times has an excellent introduction to the history, culture, people, and current concerns of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “The EFF has labored to shed the image that it is little more than a “hacker defense fund.” Today the foundation’s seven-member board includes law professors Lawrence Lessig of Stanford University and Pamela Samuelson of UC Berkeley, recognized experts in technology law who help lend pragmatic ballast to the EFF. But the abiding presence of Barlow and Gilmore through EFF’s sometimes rocky history has helped sustain the idyllic vision of cyberspace. “Yeah, I’m a utopian,” Barlow says. “But I think I’m a relatively realistic utopian. I see no problem with aiming for the moon knowing you’re not going to hit it.”" <via boingboing>