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Now would be a good time to give variuous good organisations cash.

EFF is a good place to start. The Internet Archive also has helped document some of the lies made by government officials .

The EFF's view on exploit sales and forced disclosure is questionable at best.

https://lists.immunityinc.com/pipermail/dailydave/2012-Augus...

Their stance is limited to opposing 'green hats' who are selling to customers that don't intend on fixing the flaws (buying a hacker's silence) and selling to governments whom intend on using the exploits for clandestine operations.

Now would be a good time to give variuous good organisations cash.

I just sent the EFF $100.00 earlier this evening. Needless to say, I concur wholeheartedly with this sentiment. Slacktivism and clicktivisim or whatever are nice, but if you aren't in a position to do anything else, sending cash to advocacy / activism groups like the EFF is probably the most straightforward way to advance causes you support.

For my money, so far this year, that means supporting the EFF, NRA, Gun Owners of America, Libertarian Party, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Second Amendment Foundation, Grassroots NC, and the International Mountain Bicycling Association. I think the FSF will be getting a donation from me soon as well. Probably the ACLU as well.

It sounds like you support quite a few causes, but I think the EFF and cyclists need your money more than the NRA does.

Well, we all have to make choices, and that's the great thing about living in a free and open society: We get to actually make those choices. I can understand why you might feel the way you do, but I consider defense of the 2A and gun rights to be one of the most critical issues of all, so a slightly greater portion of my disposable "support causes" dosh goes to gun rights groups. But that's OK... I'm just one man, and no one man by himself can do it all. I just do my part as best as I can. There are other people (perhaps yourself) who will do it differently and maybe send the EFF the bigger check.

> consider defense of the 2A and gun rights to be one of the most critical issues of all

Would you mind explaining your position on this?

Ya know, honestly, I don't think this is really the place to get any deeper into that. I mean, I don't mind talking about it, but it's not really on-topic here at HN. And as soon as I give you an answer, somebody is going to fire back telling me I'm wrong, and why... and then somebody else is going to chime in, and we're going to be rehashing a debate about guns that's been argued over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again...

If you're really interested though, shoot me an email and I'll be happy to discuss it "out of band" w/ respect to Hacker News.

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