FYI: who backs the EFF ----- Begin Included Message ----- >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Apr 13 13:34:17 1993 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 16:22:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The contributors to and practices of the Electronic Frontier Foundation disclose quite accurately, just who this organization represents. We challenge the legitimacy of the claim that this is a "public interest" advocate. Here is a copy of their list of contributors: [FINS requested the Office of the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachustetts to provide us with a list of contributors of over $5000, to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, required by IRS Form 990. Timothy E. Dowd, of the Division of Public Charities, provided us with a list (dated January 21, 1993), containing the following information. No response was given to a phone request by FINS directly to EFF, for permission to inspect and copy the most current IRS Form 990 information.] ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION, INC. IRS FORM 990. PART I - LIST OF CONTRIBUTIONS NAME AND ADDRESS OF CONTRIBUTOR CONTRIBUTION DATE AMOUNT Kapor Family Foundation C/O Kapor Enterprises, Inc. 155 2nd Street Cambridge, MA 02141 Var 100,000 [Note: The Kapor Family Foundation is also the leading grantor of the Singer Foundation, named for Dr. Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D., adjunct professor emeritus of psychology at UC Berkeley, and a board member of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. ‹ A. Constantine] Mitchell D. Kapor 450 Warren Street Brookline, MA 02146 Var 324,000 Andrew Hertzfeld 370 Channing Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 12/12/91 5,00 Dunn & Bradstreet C/O Michael F. ... 1001 G Street, NW Suite 300 East Washington, DC 20001 02/12/92 10,000 National Cable Television 1724 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 02/18/92 25,000 MCI Communications Corporation 1133 19th Street, NW Washington, DC 20036 03/11/92 15,000 American Newspaper Publishers Association The Newspaper CTR 11600 Sunrise Valley Reston, VA 22091 03/23/92 20,000 Apple Computer 20525 Mariani Avenue MS:75-61 Cupertino, CA 95014 03/23/92 50,000 Sun Microsystems, Inc c/o Wayne Rosing 2550 Garcia Ave Mountain View, CA 94043-1100 04/03/92 50,000 Adobe Systems, Inc. c/o William Spaller 1585 Charlestown Road Mountain View, CA 94039-7900 04/16/92 10,000 International Business Systems c/o Robert Carbert, Rte 100 Somers, NY 10589 05/07/92 50,000 Prodigy Services Company c/o G. Pera... 445 Hamilton Avenue White Plains, NY 10601 05/07/92 10,000 Electronic Mail Associates 1555 Wilson Blvd. Suite 300 Arlington, VA 22209 05/13/92 10,000 Microsoft c/o William H. Neukom 1 Microsoft Way Redmond, VA 98052 06/25/92 50,000 David Winer 933 Hermosa Way Menio Park, CA 94025 01/02/92 5,000 Ed Venture Holdings c/o Ester Dvson 375 Park Avenue New York, NY 10152 03/23/92 15,000 Anonymous 12/26/91 10,000 Bauman Fund c/o Patricia Bauman 1731 Connecticut Avenue Washington, DC 20009-1146 04/16/92 2,500 Capital Cities ABA c/o Mark MacCarthy 2445 N. Street, NW Suite 48 Washington, DC 20037 05/04/92 1,000 John Gilmore 210 Clayton Street San Francisco, CA 94117 07/23/91 1,488 08/06/91 100,000 Government Technology 10/08/91 1,000 Miscellaneous 04/03/91 120 Apple Writers Grant c/o Apple Computer 20525 Mariani Avenue 01/10/92 15,000 ----- End Included Message -----