The Electronic Frontier Foundation is looking for student programmers to do paid work on various liberty-enhancing technologies this summer, paid for by Google, through its excellent Summer of Code project. This summer, there’s funding for programmers to work on TOR (The Onion Router — a system for evading censorwalls and enhancing online privacy by bouncing your traffic through several volunteers’ computers), TOSBack (tracking changes to the terms of service of the Internet’s most popular websites), OurVoteLive (tracking problems in elections with US polling places and voting machines) and Switzerland (a passive IP-layer network neutrality testing system).
Previous Summer of Code workers have had wonderful experiences working with EFF (as a former employee, I can testify to what a great workplace it is). Not only do you get to do paid, meaningful work, but you get to do it surrounded by some of the most astute, passionate and clever people in the technology world. For the right student, this is the chance of a lifetime.
Work With EFF and TOR for Google’s Summer of Code
- EFF helping produce anonymizing software
- Intro to TOR: how you can be an anti-censorship activist in your …
- Run a TOR node, help Iranians and others keep their privacy …
- TOR: German police are *not* cracking down on Tor.
- EFF public meeting on anonymizing software in San Fran next Tues …
- EFF releases Net Neutrality detector software
- TOSBack: EFF's real-time tracker for changes in terms of service …
- EFF sets sights on abusive EULAs
- Tracking e-voting dangers: I VOTED?
- Dueling e-voting press-conferences
- Join EFF's lobby blitz and guarantee honest voting …
- EFF sues Diebold!