The EFF is not an unbiased source of information. They have an agenda and they are not afraid to embellish their stories to support it. They're have been quite a few posts on HN calling out this behavior over the past few months on EFF threads.

2. Sorry about the link... Must have copied it wrong. This should be the right link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2503140

3. I'm not sure what you mean by "slang" - could you give an example in my post.