Get your friends to join EFF, go to Defcon!

Cory Doctorow 2:40 pm Mon Apr 12, 2010

The good folks at Defcon have donated a wicked goodie-bag worth of prizes for an Electronic Frontier Foundation contest. You win by talking your friends into joining EFF.

Just register for the Defcon Getaway Fundraising Contest and receive a personalized referral link to send your friends and family. (Registration is free; please don't spam.) If your invitees become EFF members, you will be credited the amount they donate through the link. The contestant to raise the most money for EFF between now and June 30, 2010, will win:

– two Defcon 18 Human badges;
– a standard room at the Riviera Hotel for the nights of July 29-31;
– two tickets to the Vegas 2.0 Party at the Top of the Riv on July 29;
– two tickets to the iSEC Partners Party, location and date TBD; and
– two badges to the Ninja Networks Party, location TBD, on July 31.

EFF Proudly Presents the First Annual Defcon Getaway Fundraising Contest!

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