The EFF — Electronic Frontier Foundation — are always on the front lines in the battle to preserve digital freedom. From their first case, when the Secret Service thought that a Steve Jackson cyberpunk role-playing game manual was a how-to handbook for cybercrimes to the present-day challenges of privacy and security, we are lucky to have them fighting on our side. (I myself owe them for a couple of times when they’ve helped me personally.)
They have an opening for a senior position — Technology Projects Director, who will lead a 16-person team whose goal is to work on projects to create a more secure, private, and censorship-resistant internet. The Technology Projects Director will be a member of the senior leadership team, and help the EFF figure out what their next moves are: what positions to take, what projects to invest resources in, and the strategic direction of the organization.
Some of the projects the Director will oversee are:
- Privacy Badger, EFF’s wildly popular tracker blocker
- HTTPS Everywhere, used by millions to make their web browsing more secure
- Certbot, a Let’s Encrypt client helping website owners globally receive and install SSL certificates to secure their sites
- Panopticlick, a research and education project that sheds light on the seedy underbelly of browser fingerprinting
- STARTTLS Everywhere, a project to foster STARTTLS adoption and make email delivery more secure
- EFF’s Threat Lab, which has published blockbuster investigations into abusive practices by technology companies, leading to major policy changes
More details about the position are available here.
The EFF wants to encourage lots of different people to apply for this role, but they won’t achieve that without the help of the community. Please help them by sending a note about this role to folks that you believe might be a good fit, and sharing this announcement on social media.
If you’re thinking of potentially applying but have a few questions, email rainey@eff.org, and someone will get back to you.
I may have to send them an application.