EFF Effs With The FBI, Wants Your Help

Hugh D'Andrade of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says that in order to keep funding as a nonprofit, they have to be able to show that their work is "important and relevant." I don't think he has to worry about that. I've said it before, after watching more than one EFF-spanking, you don't eff with the EFF.

Warning: There's a lot of acronyms in this article.

The most recent entity to learn (or is about to learn) this lesson is none other than the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which stared the down the business end of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit.

And so, the EFF, after making the FBI get its ass in the kitchen and make some pot pie, got a hold of some 1138 pages-worth of National Security Letters (NSL) issued from one room at the FBI headquarters, the soon to be notorious Room 4944.

This room is also known as the Communications Analysis Unit,