So this is cool: On the ground at DEF CON, EFF represented security researcher Dennis Giese who received a cease-and-desist letter from digital lock maker Digilock about a presentation that Giese was going to give the next day. EFF attorney and current Special Counsel to EFF, Kurt Opsahl, got the cease-and-desist lifted so that Giese could give his talk.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/2-fast-2-legal-how-eff-helped-security-researcher-during-def-con-32
Metacurity /
npub102…6wzj6
2024-08-19 13:07:10
Author Public Key
npub102xc6m40gwx94dhvcfk353alkvfsmk28rlnu508mtfjldnxj7k4qp6wzj6Published at
2024-08-19 13:07:10Event JSON
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