Privacy's Defenders Podcast: No Privacy Without Encryption (www.eff.org)
<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p><span data-contrast="auto">When we communicate online today – from your personal emails and DMs to secure international commerce – we usually do so with encryption. Encryption converts readable data into unreadable gibberish to protect our privacy and security. This didn’t just happen organically. Three decades ago, the U.S government treated encryption like a weapon, and it took some unlikely heroes to set it free: a grad student, a junior lawyer, and a fledgling digital rights group who sued the federal government.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">The ruling in </span><a href="https://www.eff.org/cases/bernstein-v-us-dept-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i><span data-contrast="none">Bernstein v. Department of Justice</span></i></a><span data-contrast="auto"> held that code is speech and so is protected by the First Amendment – a precedent that underpins the internet as we know it today. This landmark case was led by Cindy Cohn, then a young pro bono lawyer working on behalf of EFF, who went on to become EFF’s legal director and then executive director.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Welcome to the second episode of “Privacy’s Defenders,” a podcast about the people – lawyers, journalists, hackers, and others – who’ve fought to secure your digital liberties since before most people even knew what the internet was.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
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<p>(You can also find this episode on the <a href="https://archive.org/details/privacys-defenders-E2-No-Privacy-Without-Encryption" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Internet Archive</a> and on YouTube.)</p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">In this episode, Cindy – who left EFF in June – speaks with Dan Bernstein, who was a Cal Berkeley grad student when he developed a simple encryption algorithm called “Snuffle.” Because federal law classified encryption as a war munition, publishing Snuffle meant submitting it to the government for review, getting a license as an arms dealer, and being granted a license the government had no intention of granting. Bernstein felt this violated his free-speech rights and in 1995 he sued, represented by Cindy working with EFF.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Cindy also talks with Tony Coppolino, the Justice Department lawyer she battled in court – who admits she intimidated him from their very first phone call, and who offers a surprising perspective on the case all these years later.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">The “Privacy’s Defenders” podcast (new episodes drop every other Tuesday!) is a follow-up to Cindy’s book, “<a href="https://www.eff.org/Privacys-Defender" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance</a>,” bringing to life pivotal moments in the voices of those who fought for your rights. Sales of “Privacy’s Defender” benefit EFF, so </span><a href="https://shopeff.org/products/privacys-defender-by-cindy-cohn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span data-contrast="none">pick up your copy today</span></a><span data-contrast="auto">!</span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Joanne Elgart Jennings co-produced and created this podcast. </span><span data-ccp-props="240}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Jarod Sport co-produced, mixed, and mastered it. </span><span data-ccp-props="240}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Corinne Ruff is our story editor.</span><span data-ccp-props="240}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">We had additional help from Rachel Estabrook and Alison Broverman.</span><span data-ccp-props="240}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">The original music was composed and performed by Nat Keefe of Hot Buttered Rum with Ben Andrews on the fiddle.</span></p>
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<p><span data-contrast="auto">The ruling in </span><a href="https://www.eff.org/cases/bernstein-v-us-dept-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i><span data-contrast="none">Bernstein v. Department of Justice</span></i></a><span data-contrast="auto"> held that code is speech and so is protected by the First Amendment – a precedent that underpins the internet as we know it today. This landmark case was led by Cindy Cohn, then a young pro bono lawyer working on behalf of EFF, who went on to become EFF’s legal director and then executive director.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Welcome to the second episode of “Privacy’s Defenders,” a podcast about the people – lawyers, journalists, hackers, and others – who’ve fought to secure your digital liberties since before most people even knew what the internet was.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
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<p>(You can also find this episode on the <a href="https://archive.org/details/privacys-defenders-E2-No-Privacy-Without-Encryption" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Internet Archive</a> and on YouTube.)</p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">In this episode, Cindy – who left EFF in June – speaks with Dan Bernstein, who was a Cal Berkeley grad student when he developed a simple encryption algorithm called “Snuffle.” Because federal law classified encryption as a war munition, publishing Snuffle meant submitting it to the government for review, getting a license as an arms dealer, and being granted a license the government had no intention of granting. Bernstein felt this violated his free-speech rights and in 1995 he sued, represented by Cindy working with EFF.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Cindy also talks with Tony Coppolino, the Justice Department lawyer she battled in court – who admits she intimidated him from their very first phone call, and who offers a surprising perspective on the case all these years later.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">The “Privacy’s Defenders” podcast (new episodes drop every other Tuesday!) is a follow-up to Cindy’s book, “<a href="https://www.eff.org/Privacys-Defender" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance</a>,” bringing to life pivotal moments in the voices of those who fought for your rights. Sales of “Privacy’s Defender” benefit EFF, so </span><a href="https://shopeff.org/products/privacys-defender-by-cindy-cohn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span data-contrast="none">pick up your copy today</span></a><span data-contrast="auto">!</span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Joanne Elgart Jennings co-produced and created this podcast. </span><span data-ccp-props="240}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Jarod Sport co-produced, mixed, and mastered it. </span><span data-ccp-props="240}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Corinne Ruff is our story editor.</span><span data-ccp-props="240}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">We had additional help from Rachel Estabrook and Alison Broverman.</span><span data-ccp-props="240}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">The original music was composed and performed by Nat Keefe of Hot Buttered Rum with Ben Andrews on the fiddle.</span></p>
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