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Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) · 68 episodes with transcripts

The internet is broken—but it doesn’t have to be. If you’re concerned about how surveillance, online advertising, and automated content moderation are hurting us online and offline, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s How to Fix the Internet podcast offers a better way forward.

Spoken has transcripts of 68 How to Fix the Internet episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 13, 2026.

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Privacy's Defenders: No Privacy Without Encryption

October 13, 2026

Cindy Cohen (0:02)

This is Privacy's Defenders, a podcast about the people who fought to secure your digital civil liberties since 1990, long before most people even knew about the Internet. I'm Cindy Cohen, and I had the honor of serving as the executive director and the legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation for over…

Today's episode is all about the fight for encryption. We're digging into EFF's seminal legal case against the federal government in the 1990s, called the Bernstein Case. This is how I got my start with EFF, as a young pro bono lawyer going up against the federal government.

John Gilmore (3:01)

No, I did spend a fair bit of time in the pork store.

SPEAKER_3 (3:05)

See, it was just another day at the pork store for you.

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