Ο 76χρονος John Gilmore συν-ίδρυσε την EFF το 1990 και στα 31 χρόνια από τότε "παρείχε ηγεσία και καθοδήγηση σε πολλά από τα σημαντικότερα ζητήματα των ψηφιακών δικαιωμάτων που υποστηρίζουμε σήμερα", αναφέρει το EFF σε ανακοίνωσή του την Παρασκευή, αποχαιρετώντας τον Gilmore.
"Αλλά τα τελευταία χρόνια, δεν έχουμε τον καλύτερο τρόπο επικοινωνίας και συνεργασίας", προσθέτουν, ανακοινώνοντας ότι "δεν καταφέραμε να συμφωνήσουμε και να προχωρήσουμε με τον Gilmore σε ρόλο διαgovernmentς ".
This is why the EFF Board of Directors recently made the difficult decision to vote for Gilmore's removal from the board.
"Είμαστε βαθιά ευγνώμονες για τα πολλά χρόνια που έδωσε ο Gilmore στο EFF σαν ηγέτης και σαν συνήγορος, και το Διοικητικό Συμβούλιο τον εξέλεξε στο ρόλο του Ομότιμου Μέλους ενός Διοικητικού Συμβουλίου που προχωρά."
“I am so proud of the impact EFF is having on conservation and extension των ατομικών δικαιωμάτων και ελευθεριών καθώς ο κόσμος έχει προσαρμοστεί στις μεγάλες τεχνολογικές αλλαγές", ανέφερε ο Gilmore.
"Η αποχώρησή μου θα αφήσει ένα ισχυρό διοικητικό συμβούλιο και ένα ακόμη ισχυρότερο επιτελείο που ενδιαφέρεται βαθιά για αυτά τα θέματα".
John Gilmore co-founded the EFF in 1990 with John Perry Barlow, Steve Wozniak and Mitch Kapor and provided significant financial support that was critical to the organization's survival and growth for many years.
Since then, Gilmore has worked closely with EFF staff, board and lawyers on privacy, freedom of speech, security, encryption and more.
In the 1990s, Gilmore found government documents confirming the First Amendment problem with government controls on the export of encryption and helped launch Bernstein's lawsuit against the US Department of Justice (DOJ), which ended in a lawsuit. decision that wants the source code of each software to be protected by the First Amendment.
Thus government regulations preventing its publication were ruled unconstitutional. The decision became legal in 1999 in the programs browsing web, websites and software like PGP and Signal to use its encryption choicetheir
Gilmore also led the EFF effort to design and build the DES Cracker, which was seen as a fundamental breakthrough in how we evaluate computer security and public policies that control the use of encryption.
At that time (1970), the data encryption standard (DES) was integrated into ATMs and banking networks, as well as popular software around the world.
But U.S. government officials claimed the DES was safe and could steal it.
The EFF DES Cracker publicly demonstrated that DES was actually so weak that it could be cracked in a week with an investment of less than $350.000. This catalyzed her creation and adoption of the much stronger Advanced Encryption Standard (AES from Advanced Encryption Standard), now widely used to secure information worldwide.
The EFF always valued Gilmore's opinions, even when they disagreed. It is no exaggeration to say that he would not exist without him.
Gilmore also co-founded the alt * hierarchy on Usenet, co-founded the Cypherpunks mailing list, and co-founded Cygnus Solutions (according to his Wikipedia page).
