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By MIKE MILIARD | February 9, 2006

As the EFF has established itself as an important advocate and defender with the expansion of the Internet’s reach and the profusion of new technologies in the last several years, so too is it forced to live on the fly, keeping an unblinking eye on the pitfalls and snares on the road to innovation.

“The truth is, the most important issues EFF is likely to work on in the next five years are issues that I haven’t thought of yet, and neither have you,” says Cohn. “It’s gonna break, it’s gonna be on the front page of the papers, and that will be what we’re doing. Someone’s going to need someone to stand up for them, and we’ll do it.”

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On the Web:

EFF: http://www.eff.org/
Download Tor: http://tor.eff.org/
EFF's legal guide for bloggers: http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/
Mitchell Kapor: http://www.kapor.com/
John Perry Barlow's conversations with friends: http://barlow.typepad.com/barlowfriendz/
John Gilmore: http://www.toad.com/gnu/
The Well: http://www.well.com/
Downhill Battle: http://www.downhillbattle.org/
ACLU: http://www.aclu.org/
GYBO: http://www.gybo.org/
Digital Eargasm: http://digitaleargasm.blogspot.com/
The Onion: http://www.theonion.com
JibJab: http://www.jibjab.com/

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