 
         Why You Should Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation 
         ======================================================
                                          Updated: Jan. 4, 1996
 
         The Electronic Frontier Foundation
         1550 Bryant Street, Suite 725
         San Francisco CA 94103 USA
         +1 415 436 9333 (voice)          +1 415 436 9993 (fax)
         membership@eff.org
 
Every day decisions are being made that will affect your life online -
decisions about what sorts of technology you can use to protect the 
privacy of your communications; decisions about what services you will 
be able to get over the emerging global information infrastructure;
*decisions that are made before you even know that there are choices.*
 
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been working since July 1990 to
ensure that the civil liberties guaranteed in the Constitution and the 
Bill of Rights are applied to new communications technologies.  Our 
members join EFF to make sure that they are informed about the issues 
and debates that will shape the future of electronic communications.  
EFF members enjoy the following benefits:
 
*  subscription to our frequent electronic newsletter and action 
   bulletin, _EFFector_Online_;
 
*  online bulletins that will keep you informed about the key legal,
   legislative and social developments affecting your online 
   communications;
 
*  an online response mechanism to make themselves heard on key issues.
 
*  EFF's legal hotline, which, in the event that your civil liberties are
   violated, can help you find legal information and assistance.
 
EFF is a respected voice for the rights of users of online technologies. 
We feel that the best way to protect your online liberties is to be fully
informed and to make your opinions heard. EFF members are informed, and 
are making a difference. Join EFF today!
 
More information about the details of the form and commonly asked 
questions follow the form itself.
 
 
MEMBERSHIP IN THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION
================================================
 
Print out in monospaced (non-proportional) font and mail or fax to:
Membership Coordinator (membership@eff.org)
Electronic Frontier Foundation
1550 Bryant Street, Suite 725
San Francisco CA 94103 USA
+1 415 436 9333 (voice)
+1 415 436 9993 (fax)
Or upload to our Internet ftp site: ftp.eff.org, /incoming
(when uploading, please name the file uniquely, e.g. jane_smith.form.)
 
Feel free to delete portions of the form you won't use before printing to 
reduce form length, and add more address lines if needed.
 
 
------- MEMBERSHIP FORM -------- cut here ---------------
 
I wish to join the Electronic Frontier Foundation at the following 
annual tax-deductible membership rate:

___ Fellow $500       ___ Benefactor $250    ___ Pioneer $100

___ Advocate $65      ___ Supporter $40      ___ Student/Low-income $20

___ SysOp/Recruiter  $10  (see sysop sub-form below). 

I am ___ a new member / ___ renewing: member number__________.

I wish to make an additional tax-deductible donation in the 
amount of $__________ to further support the activities of EFF. 

I would like ___ EFF t-shirts at $10 each. (XL only)

___ I'm renewing at a higher rate and would like a free shirt.
 
PAYMENT METHOD:
___ Check or money order payable to Electronic Frontier Foundation.  

___ MC  ___ Visa  ___ AmEx     Card Number: ______________________

Expiration Date: ____________    Signature:_______________________
 
Name: _________________________ Organization: _____________________

Address: __________________________________________________________

         __________________________________________________________

E-mail address: ___________________________________________________
 
___ I would like to receive EFFector Online, EFF's newsletter

___ EFF may distribute my name & contact info, only to organ-
     izations sharing similar goals. (See privacy policy below.)

___ I am interested in local "Electronic Frontier" activism.

___ I am interested in volunteering/interning with EFF.
 
I got this form from Member #1045.
 
------ end of form --------- cut here ---------------
 
 
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a U.S. nonprofit, 501(c)(3) 
organization supported by contributions from individual members,
corporations and private foundations. Memberships and donations are 
tax-deductible. Merchandise (e.g. t-shirt) orders are not tax-deductible. 
EFF's tax exemption number is 04-3091431.
 
EFF is a nonpartisan equal opportunity membership organization. Membership 
will never be denied to anyone because of race, color, religion, national
origin, political affiliation, etc. (In fact, EFF has never denied membership
to anyone for any reason.)
 
* PRIVACY POLICY:
  EFF occasionally shares our mailing list with other 
  organizations promoting similar goals. However, we respect an 
  individual's right to privacy and will not distribute your 
  info without your explicit permission.  Under no circum-
  stances will your information be sold, rented or given to 
  advertising companies, nor revealed to government agencies.
 
NOTES about local activism and volunteers: EFF will begin compiling a 
(private) list of people interested in local "Electronic Frontier" 
organizing and activism, to better help local groups get started.  
Initially we'll just collect names and email addresses, and later put 
people in the same area in touch with eachother when there are enough 
people to get the ball rolling.  EFF also from time to time seeks 
volunteers and interns, on both a local in-person basis, and a virtual
over-the-Net basis.  If you are an attorney interested in doing local pro
bono legal work in support of civil liberties online, please contact
EFF staff counsel Shari Steele (ssteele@eff.org), who maintains a (private) 
list of attorneys to refer people to.
 
NOTES about credit cards:  EFF does NOT recommend sending credit card
info via email, unless it is encrypted.  See our PGP encryption key, below.
When submitting credit card info via email, please PGP-sign your membership
form in lieu of a regular signature.  RIPEM, RSA, or other cryptographic 
signatures are also acceptable, but PGP is preferred.  If you do not 
have access to PGP, aren't inclined to encrypt your form, etc., please 
fax your membership form or send it via postal mail.
 
NOTES regarding Student membership: This works on the honor system -
we do not request copies of school paperwork or the like.  This membership
price range is also open to those under the poverty line.
 
NOTES about EFF t-shirts: This is the classic EFF shirt, printed front 
(EFF logo) and back (large artwork) in two colors on white cotton 
shirts.  Available for $10 to new and non-members; members who renew
at a higher rate above Supporter membership (e.g. "upgrade" from 
Supporter to Advocate, or from Student to Pioneer) receive a free shirt if 
requested!
 
NOTES regarding SysOp/Recruiter membership: System Operator & 
Recruiter members are required to bring in 10 or more new members to 
renew at the "SysOp/Recruiter" membership rate (otherwise "Supporter" 
rates apply). Send queries to membership@eff.org for more info.  NOTE: 
CIS, AOL, etc. forum sysops and co-sysops ARE eligible for SysOp 
membership, as are system administrators at Internet access providers, 
and the moderators of echomail conferences, mailing lists, and Usenet 
newsgroups. Print publishers, librarians, and any others who wish to 
recruit are also eligible for this membership category.
* IMPORTANT: SysOp/Recruiter members should include the mini-form below
with their membership applications.
 
Recruitment is usually fulfilled by distributing EFF membership forms
via the SysOp/Recruiter member's system (or forum, or publication, or 
place of business, as applicable.)
 
Business persons who are not interested in active recruitment but are 
interested in supporting the Foundation with monetary or in-kind 
donations should contact EFF directly (membership@eff.org via email).  
EFF has a program whereby, for your special donations, you may be listed 
as a supporting online business (or library, or individual, etc.) on our 
World Wide Web site, with a link to your own site.  This is great 
recognition for you, and your donations help us protect your civil 
liberties in new media!  For more information, contact membership@eff.org.
 
Frequently asked question:  "How come I don't get monthly full-color 
glossy newsletters, and mouse-pads and posters and widgets when I join?"
EFF devotes all funding to our work (and overhead, of course).  We do
not feel it is right to spend your donations on gimmicks.  From time to
time, we do produce bumperstickers and such as part of our educational
mission, and if and when a company donates some useful product or service
for EFF members (e.g. t-shirts, discount coupons, etc.), we will be happy to 
include such things as part of the membership benefits, provided they 
are appropriate, and do not add appreciably to overhead.  At EFF your 
money goes to WORK, not to waste.
 
Frequently asked question: "How come, as an EFF member, I don't vote on
what EFF is doing, who the board members are, etc.?"  EFF was incorporated
as a different sort of non-profit. The organization is not a populist
group such as a trade association.  We have a set and certain mission, and
EFF members are those who support our mission and want to see it succeed.
Your membership dues are actually a donation in support of the 
organization's goals, not a payment for representation of changing
agendas.  EFF cares very much what our members think and feel, and
we always welcome your feedback, positive or negative.  EFF also supports
the creation of independent local "Electronic Frontier" organizations,
in lieu of rigidly-controlled chapters.  If you are interested in starting
such an organization, please contact EFF online activist Stanton McCandlish
(mech@eff.org).
 
 
**** SYSOP MEMBERSHIP SECTION ***********************************
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* Please include this section with your membership application, *
* if joining as a SysOp/Recruiter member.  Delete parts that    *
* don't apply, if you wish.                                     *
*                                                               *
* Data Ph.:  _________________  Speed/Protocol: _______________ *
* (duplicate above line for multiple nodes if you wish.)        *
* Other access means: _________________________________________ *
* (e.g. for Internet service, AOL forum, etc.)                  *
* BBS Info:  BBS/Service/Name: ________________________________ *
*            SysOp(s)/Proprietor(s)____________________________ *
*            Network Address(es): _____________________________ *
* BBS Notes (OS, modem types/speeds, Internet connectivity,     *
*  access requirements, hours, fees, software, focus or special *
*  interests, unique features, etc.  Or, publication/business/  *
*  library info):                                               *
*  ____________________________________________________________ *
* (duplicate above line to add more info as needed).            *
*                                                               *
* ____ Include my BBS/service in the EFF Member Service List.   *
*                                                               *
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INTERNET CONTACT ADDRESSES
==========================
 
Introductory EFF info: info@eff.org
EFF's Guide to the Internet: netguide@eff.org
Membership & donations: membership@eff.org
Legal services: ssteele@eff.org
Hardcopy publications: pubs@eff.org
Technical questions/problems, access to mailing lists: eff@eff.org
General EFF, legal, policy or online resources queries: ask@eff.org
Latest issue of _EFFector_ (EFF newsletter): effector-reflector@eff.org
 
 
EFF PGP PUBLIC KEY FOR ENCRYPTION
=================================
 
This is the ASCII-armored PGP 2.62us public key for the Electronic 
Frontier Foundation (EFF).  It is compatible with PGP vers. 2.2 - 2.7.
PGP is an ecryption (data security encoding) program, available for
DOS, OS/2, Unix, Macintosh and several other platforms. PGP is the
de facto Internet standard for encryption, and is available from many
BBSs, FTP sites, and other online services.  (If you have trouble 
locating PGP, see ftp.eff.org, /pub/Net_info/Tools/Crypto/README.Dist).
 
Note that mail sent with this key will be considered addressed to 
EFF in general, not to a specific person, unless otherwise noted in 
plaintext. To send encrypted personal mail to someone at EFF, for 
whatever reason, please use that person's own key, or arrange some 
other method of communication.
 
This key is provided principally for the sending of sensitive legal
information, and the transmission of credit card numbers over the 
Net securely when becoming a member of EFF.  It takes us time and 
effort to decrypt, so please don't use this key trivially.  If
sending something other than a membership form, please begin your 
"Subject:" line with "URGENT -" (unless it's non-urgent of course).
Thank you. Please expect a delay, as the message will have to be
transferred to another system for decryption (we do not keep PGP 
or our secret keys on our Internet systems for security reasons.)
 
 
To add this key to your PGP key ring, save the key as a text file
called pgpkey.eff, then use the following DOS or Unix commandline
(several RISK architectures may also use this commandline), 
in your PGP directory:
 
pgp -ka pgpkey.eff pubring.pgp
 
If your public key ring has another name, use that instead of 
"pubring.pgp".  You may need to specify a full path to PGP, or 
otherwise modify the above command. If you have trouble, please 
refer to the PGP documentation and/or ask your local system 
administrators for help.
 
For MacPGP, pick "Add Key" from the "Key" menu, select 
pgpkey.eff as the file to get the key from, and pubring.pgp (or 
whatever your public keyring is named) as the file to add the 
key to.
 
To encrypt a message, please see the PGP documentation, and 
remember that you will almost certainly need to generate the 
result as an ASCII-armored file, so you can email it 
(non-ASCII-armored PGP ciphertexts are binary, and will get 
mangled if you try to email them.)
 
*** NOTE!  PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS *INSIDE* THE 
    ENCRYPTED MESSAGE any time you send us crypto-mail. Please 
    also include it in plain text just before the beginning of
    the encrypted text. Otherwise, we may not be able to reply,
    if the original email headers are lost and/or we encounter 
    difficulties decrypting your message.
 
The key itself:
 
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.6
 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YS51cz60HkVGRiA8NzY3MTEuMzE3QGNvbXB1c2VydmUuY29tPrQYRUZGIDwxOjEw
OS8xMTA4QEZpZG9OZXQ+tBlFRkYgPDE5OjEyMDIvMTAxQFdpc2hOZXQ+tBlFRkYg
PDM2OToxMDExLzJASW5kcmFOZXQ+tBhFRkYgPDE4MToxOTMvMUBTdG9ybU5ldD60
IERpc2NhcmQgb2xkZXIga2V5IC0gaXQncyByZXZva2Vk
=2A8+
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
 
[Final note: beware line wrapping - key will not work if mangled!]

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