Podcast Episode Hack To The Future

Like many younger individuals, Zach Latta went to a school that did not train any computer courses. However that didn’t cease him from studying every part he might about them and turning into a programmer at a young age. After transferring to San Francisco, Zach based Hack Club, a nonprofit network of high school coding clubs all over the world, to assist other college students find the schooling and group that he wished he had as a teenager.

This week on our podcast, we speak to Zach in regards to the significance of scholar entry to an open web, why learning to code can improve equity, and the way school's on-line safety and the law usually stand in the way in which. We’ll also discuss how pc schooling might help create the next generation of makers and builders that we need to solve a few of society’s largest issues.

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On this episode, you’ll find out about:

Why faculties block some harmless academic content material and coding resources, from common sites like Github to “view source” capabilities on college-issued units

How locked down digital systems in faculties stop young people from learning about coding and computers, and create fairness issues for students who're already marginalized

How coding and “hack” clubs can empower young people, assist them study self-expression, and discover group

How pervasive faculty surveillance undermines trust and limits people’s capacity to exercise their rights when they're older

How younger people’s curiosity for the way issues work online has helped bring us a number of the technology we love most

Zach Latta is the govt director of Hack Membership, a nationwide nonprofit connecting over 14,000 younger individuals to help them create and take part in coding clubs, hackathons, and workshops all over the world. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient and a Thiel Fellow.

Music for how to repair the Internet was created for us by Reed Mathis and Nat Keefe of BeatMower.

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Transcript:

Zach: I grew up close to Los Angeles, both my mother and father have been social employees and growing up, I went to public colleges that almost all colleges in America did not educate any pc classes. And for me, as a younger person, I simply felt like, oh my God, if solely I might figure out how these magical units work, that is the place the secrets and techniques of the universe lie. But it was always a solitary exercise for me.

As a teenager I used to be very lonely and that culminated for me, I ended up dropping out of high school after my freshman year when I used to be sixteen and that i moved to San Francisco to change into a programmer. And after working at a pair startups to get some cash and put together some savings, I began Hack Club to try to create the type of place and community that I so desperately wished I had when I used to be a teenager.

Cindy: That is Zach Latta. He's the founder of Hack Membership and he's our guest at the moment. Zach goes to inform us about how groups like Hack Membership are teaching kids the right way to hack and in any other case be creators on-line and the way that's one of many ways we might help shift them from being just passive consumers of the digital world to really charting their very own futures.

Danny: We're going to speak to Zach about scholar rights to an open internet, why studying to code can increase fairness and what happens when a school's online security and the regulation get in the way in which of all that.

Cindy: I am Cindy Cohn, EFF's government director.

Danny: And I am Danny O'Brien, special advisor to the EFF. Welcome to How to fix the Internet, a podcast of the Digital Frontier Basis, the place we bring you huge concepts, solutions, and hope that we can repair the biggest issues we face online.

Cindy: Zach, thanks a lot for becoming a member of us.

Zach: Effectively, thanks a lot for having me. I'm so honored. Growing up as a teenager, I simply liked the EFF and all the pieces the group stood for. It's a real honor to be with all of you here as we speak.

Cindy: Oh, terrific.

You reached out to EFF for help and that is how we ended up really meeting you. Are you able to discuss to us about what led you to try this?

Zach: We are a community of teenagers all across the world who love constructing things with computer systems and run communities to attempt and convey teenagers together, to make things with know-how. And nearly every month, we've a serious problem where a school district simply blocks Hack Membership. And there is no such thing as a worse call to get from a Hack Club, they're saying, "All right, I bought 20 individuals in the room, we're making an attempt to get began, hackclub.com is blocked, github.com is blocked, Stack Overflow is blocked, how can we possibly run our meeting from right here?"

Due to this drawback, sort of in a little bit of frustration. With some Hack Clubbers I wrote a letter to EFF help line, simply saying, "Hey, is there any way that EFF might be ready to help us with this? Because that is beginning to be a factor where it isn't like one faculty has this problem, it is like we have now dozens of faculties around America the place simply all the things's blocked."

Danny: Simply to be clear right here, this is not just you being blocked, that is main informational resources, proper?

Zach: Oh yeah. It is crazy. If you are a younger one that desires to learn about computer systems and wants to learn to code, you kind of need the internet to do that. And also you depend on websites like Google, like GitHub, like Stack Overflow, like GitLab. There's a complete ecosystem that each single skilled developer relies on every single day and at a major share of faculties around America, all of these sources are simply blocked, together with hackclub.com.

We run a membership regionally right here in Vermont, the place we take a look at out all of our stuff earlier than we put it online and open supply it. And I used to be speaking with a Hack Clubber there the place literally each single web site apart from college classroom is blocked on their school laptop. And this Hack Clubber isn't from a family with means so the only laptop that they have access to at home is their college issued Chromebook. And because of this, he's six weeks behind all people else in this membership and still hasn't gotten previous the preliminary hurdle of constructing early websites.

Danny: Clearly what you're doing in Hack Membership should be extremely subversive to be blocked in this way. What are you doing? What are these children studying or failing to learn because they can't really access to the web?

Zach: What Hack Club's all about is bringing teenagers together who love computer systems and want to learn how to make things with computers. Whether or not it is building a website or making a video game or perhaps even beginning a local enterprise and most colleges do not provide any curriculum or help around that. What Hack Clubbers are doing is in their meetings, they're usually making an attempt to study HTML, CSS, JavaScript or later on, more advanced languages like Rust or just lately there's an enormous motion around Zig, which is a brand new standard language. And when you are making an attempt to run the meeting and bring people to github.com, the place we have now lots of our resources, when it is blocked, it is the meeting's lifeless on arrival. I do not assume school directors are dangerous folks. I come from a protracted line of teachers and I feel that folks in faculties are doing their best but are most likely afraid around things like liability.

Cindy: Their incentive is simply to make it possible for kids do not ever get to something which may presumably be problematic. They do not have an incentive to verify youngsters can really study a few of these skills. And so, when you outsource this to individuals whose business it is to dam, they're going to dam as opposed to having a thoughtful course of by which you determine what do college students really need to be taught? And I believe you are completely right, when it comes to computer programming and understanding how computers work, all people learned this by going out onto the internet and discovering the locations the place other persons are sharing this and something like GitHub, an enormous proportion of what really runs the internet is there. It's slightly crazy

Danny: When we educate individuals to read and write, we're not expecting them to be English literature students or novelists. We're giving them the tools to work in society. When we now have studying, writing and algorithms or no matter, it is in order that they will do what they want to do in society and they will construct society with an understanding of the things around them.

Zach: While you notice that the world round us is constructed by different human beings, you notice you may very well be a type of human beings. I think that beginning 10 years in the past, there was this large shift in training that happened. And for some motive nonetheless isn't actually a part of the dialogue around what good classrooms or good learning environments looks like, which is that every single young individual on the planet started having these magical units of their pockets, which had all of human historical past and data on them. These items are higher than the Library of Alexandria. That is it. It doesn't get better. And I think that a lot of public training techniques around the world are designed to unravel entry problems. How do we just simply get access to data in entrance of everybody and to them?: And we've constructed this unbelievable distribution mechanism. It's really exceptional but I believe the new challenge of studying in the twenty first century is one among motivation. How can we get folks to care? How can we get people to make use of this? And I believe that when we lock down digital systems around young people, we kind of tell them, "Do not poke and prod, do not strive things, don't go out of your way to go down a path that we have not pre-authorized for you." And I think that that kind of kills curiosity. It is actually counterproductive.

Danny: How much do you consider it is because you're called Hack Membership? How much do you assume is because people associate that with malicious hacking?

Zach: I believe it is possibly a small element. Regardless that I think Hack Membership as an organization is just a little subversive in nature. We work straight with teenagers. We function form of exterior of the system, in some regards. The faculties that Hack Clubs are in, normally the varsity loves Hack Club because it's teenagers at their college who're getting collectively in a means meaning that they are actually engaged in their studying. And we are considered one of lots of of groups that run into these issues each single day. And I believe this idea of students' rights, particularly on the internet, as a result of it is so new, it's so technical, just for some reason isn't talked about at all, despite the fact that it impacts young individuals greater than almost any other determination made at their college.

Cindy: We've been talking rather a lot about blocking entry to data, blocking web sites and things like that but I believe that you've got seen issues with the devices themselves, have not you?

Zach: Yeah. Increasingly Hack Clubbers, the only gadget they've entry to both in conferences or at residence is a college issued Chromebook. And one of many choices on college issued Chromebooks is to disable right clicking and clicking inspect ingredient. And you cannot learn to program web sites with out being able to do that. And that is such a real downside that we have had to build our own debugger to help with that.

Danny: Simply to be clear right here, whenever you say proper click on, that is the thing where you could have the second mouse button and then folks always stumble on this by accident and marvel what the heck have I achieved? Since you click on and then there's a bit menu. It is for coders or for somebody who needs to type of go a bit deeper or in fact save a picture. It is the form of metaphor for, okay, let's go a little bit bit deeper into what we're looking at right here. And that doesn’t… children cannot try this on these lockdown computers?

Zach: Yeah. It's a machine safety setting. You'll be able to turn off inspecting element, which signifies that younger people in Hack Membership meetings who haven't got a school issued computer can view the source code of any webpage that they go to. And if you do not have the resources at home to have one and also you solely the college issued pc, you simply can't.

Danny: All people in the early net learned how to build the rest of the early internet by view supply. There was a bit of pull down menu.

Cindy: Completely.

Danny: And in case you saw an online web page that you simply appreciated, you could possibly look at the unique HTML after which lower and paste it and mess round with it. And you're saying that kids simply have to take what they've given now?

Zach: You excellent click and it is not an option.

Danny: Holy cow.

Cindy: And this is a setting. Chromebooks do not come like this necessarily however they provide the directors the power to lock youngsters out of this information. It's simply, it is hard to think about the thinking that leads you to determine that we're going to deny children information in school.

Danny: And just me and Zach and Cindy and now are vibrating in the studio. You can't actually see this. One of the issues so upsetting about that is that the setting, the mouse, the windowing surroundings that you are using was particularly constructed to be an academic atmosphere that you would discover and study. It is an absolute perversion of the very fundamental approach these things have been developed and intended to use. It's like in case you gave someone a painting set however no paints.

Cindy: The fairness issues listed below are simply large. Because we all know that one among the good things is that we're now giving youngsters devices that they'll use to assist themselves study. Well But if they're locked down units and that's the rich youngsters have one other device that they will use but the poor youngsters end up with only a lockdown device, a poor device for poor people really it appears like.

Zach: Once you look on the marketing for some of these faculty filter corporations, the advertising and marketing is like, we forestall pupil suicide. And it's, we forestall school shootings. What a strange connection to draw. After which the things they do to be ready to attract that connection just isn't solely do they filter what web sites you are able to go to however they actually scan each single email you ship out of your school account, each single IM that you send from your school account, they scan the things you do on web sites. For this one district that we're in, in Georgia, once you go to a website that's blocked, not solely does it say, "This website's blocked, you are not allowed to come back right here," nevertheless it actually says that there is a security situation along with your computer and that the best way fix it is to download this intermediate SSL certificate, install it in your pc, set as a trusted source and what which means is it permits the school to man within the middle all your encrypted visitors.

Danny: Proper. That is like your undermining the safety of that pc. And I feel this is actually vital to emphasize. One of many things that we at all times speak about at EFF is you cannot do censorship without surveillance. You could have to be able to see what persons are taking a look at to block it. And what that means for these sort of methods is, as you say, simply to be clear, what that individual is being asked to download there's the master key to all of their communications on that pc, from their financial details to every thing.

Cindy: Yes. And it's a problem that predates COVID nevertheless it really bought supercharged during COVID, this concept that constant surveillance is what it's important to tolerate if you're a scholar. And that is dangerous first because that is harmful for youths however it is also harmful as a result of we're making a era of kids who suppose that being watched all the time is okay. This can be a basic human right. It's central to human dignity. And one of many issues that we have learned is you cannot deny youngsters utterly human dignity after which expect them to all of a sudden at age 18, be capable of train their full rights in a manner that may work. It does not work that manner.

Danny: “How to repair the Internet” is supported by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Program in Public Understanding of Science. Enriching people’s lives through a keener appreciation of our increasingly technological world and portraying the complex humanity of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians.

How do the kids themselves feel about this? What do you get from them?

Zach: Well, there's two issues I might love to contact on there. I believe an concept that I might love for us all to start speaking about is this concept of digital civic duty. And I think it is the identical factor the place you not solely receive being a consumer but you give too. You make your personal websites, you modify the internet, you modify know-how. You're not just a shopper, you're a creator too.

By way of what Hack Clubbers really feel about faculty surveillance. Hack Clubbers really feel like they reside in an Orwellian surveillance state because you spend your time on networks that are surveilled, where if you try to poke prod, unhealthy issues could occur. And I believe undoubtedly Hack Clubbers feel like they can not work together with their school on points like these because I feel lots of faculty directors are not technical enough to grasp what's occurring. Should you flag the wrong thing, you could very simply end up going through disciplinary motion or something like that. I had this happen when I used to be a teenager, I installed a VPN on my laptop, what I brought to my faculty, I used to be the one person at my college that I knew on a laptop computer and I was pulled apart by the vice principal because they had been like, "Why are you hacking our faculty?"

Danny: And I think it undermines trust. Initially, you set the stakes. That the administration is form of saying, "We don't actually belief you so we're going to put this software." However then when children who are curious and fascinated in this look into it, they realize that they are additionally being lied to.

Zach: And I feel it actually undermines these values that we discuss too much about, like curiosity, like tinkering, like attempting things out, determining who you want to be through making an attempt to make things. When there's a consequence to those actions, which is the case when you may have your net activity filtered and then routinely reported in some cases, it means that suddenly making an attempt to be taught there might be a consequence for those who Google the fallacious factor. And I think that in a spot where we care rather a lot about independence and where we care too much about serving to folks grow to be their very own individual agents of change, I feel that our digital environments that we create for younger people inside of schools, I think sort of does the other. It tells you, "No, you're a client, keep watching Netflix, do not mess with your computer."

Cindy: I think this really hearkens back to the beginning of the Digital Frontier Basis, the place we had regulation enforcement coming in and doing raids on numerous kids who have been poking round on the early internet, making an attempt to figure out how issues work. This is admittedly one of the founding tales of EFF. And the flip aspect of it's a few of those same kids or youngsters who had been friends with them, by the title of maybe Wozniak or different things, they went on to develop a few of the tools and the issues that we love probably the most. We're not just doing one thing unfair to those kids, we could also be short circuiting the subsequent era of people who are going to deliver us a greater world.

Cindy: Let's talk about some of Hack Club's successes. And by the way in which, I simply need to offer you extra love for reclaiming the time period hack for doing something good. That is being a hacker, once more, I'm an old style web person, being a hacker was being someone who dug in deeply, tried to determine things out. And it might have been not the prettiest factor however truly made things work. And I believe that someway we've lost that sense of the word and it is turn into synonymous with evil. And so I actually respect you reclaiming it and lifting it up however that's just my little soapbox moment. However let's hear some success tales. What's Hack Membership doing for youths? What are you seeing?

Zach: Oh, it is incredible. I don't know. There is a Hack Clubbers who wrote a complete recreation engine in Rust. I was speaking with Hack Clubbers who built an entire clone of Minecraft in Rust the place they made the OpenGL calls themselves. However the thing that I believe is actually vital about Hack Membership for people who find themselves in it beyond just the coding and past the socialization is I think that for Hack Clubbers, coding is not just a way to make video games or make a private web site or I don't know, get a job in the future. It's a type of self expression. It's this is a place where I can be myself, where I can get what is in my head out on paper. It is a thing that provides you energy and an agency as a younger person that you do not actually find in class and don't actually find in other activities or around your life. And it is a place where it would not actually matter where you're from or what you seem like or who your mother and father are, how much cash you make. It's that is a spot the place people will treat you want a real person with real respect. And I know for me, when I was a young individual, I was really desperate for that.

Danny: As you talked about this, I used to be pondering in regards to the early days of the online and the web. And that i instantly thought to myself, it's not just Hack Membership, it is not simply these places where children collect, I feel a huge chunk of the optimistic sides of the internet had been constructed by kids or built by teenagers. I think of Aaron Swartz, who very close to EFF. Me and Cindy knew him well.

Zach: Wow. He's a private hero of mine

Danny: Right. And when we first met Aaron, he was hacking on the elemental code that was building the web with Tim Berners-Lee at, I believe he will need to have been 14. Heaps of individuals begin out at that age. And the opposite thing is and I feel this goes to the guts of what we attempt to speak about on this show is you're modeling the positive future of the web. And it is driven by people wanting to build that, wanting to construct that for themselves. Do the youngsters you speak to, do they assume about this extra widely?

Zach: I think coding is the glue. It's the thing that brings everybody together but the magic is in all the why questions. Because Hack Club's a space the place people ask questions like, who am I? Who do I want to be? What is this world I live in? What's my relationship with it? And I feel that we've got this idea of hacker pals the place if I think if Hack Membership does one factor, we want to try to assist younger people find different hacker pals as a result of when you could have someone else like you, that shares your curiosity at a really deep level, it means that while you discover those questions, you'll be able to go a lot deeper and you're feeling heard in a means that you simply may not if you don't have associates which are as into some of these things as you.

Cindy: Hack Membership's not the just one. There are programs like this all all over the world which are really particularly aimed at reaching communities who principally weren't the focus of type of the primary generation of hacker kids. In the event you'd speak about that too, I might adore it.

Zach: For me growing up and I believe this is built into Hack Membership's DNA, I undoubtedly felt like a baby of the world or a child of the web because the people I used to be having so many of those formative conversations with online had been from everywhere in the world from all backgrounds. And I feel that that's just so extremely important.

One in all my favourite things about Hack Membership is since we don't this design a playbook that then everybody runs, every Hack Membership at each school is totally different. And in consequence, if you go to a Hack Club in Kerala India, it's dramatically completely different than a Hack Membership in America. It is different. It makes more sense for native context.

And because of this, once you walk into some of these clubs from world wide, the local leaders have really asked, "What makes probably the most sense for me? What makes the most sense for different folks like me?" And I think that, significantly in areas the place people really feel marginalized or they don't see a home for themselves or they do not have role models in the identical approach that some more conventional people might need, my hope is that with Hack Club, that they will build the home that they've at all times been in search of. And I believe that the internet allows younger folks to try this in a way that simply wasn't potential before.

Danny: This is such a cliche, but this is definitely the following era. This is the future. Do you might have any predictions about the way forward for the web? What are the things that they're constructing which might be missing in the existing system?

Zach: We face some of the most important challenges over the following 50 years that humanity's ever had to reckon with. And I think that we'd like a generation of younger people who not only have actual onerous abilities, they can actually do something from a builder perspective around these big challenges however they even have the correct mindset and community to think a little bit otherwise.

The mindset is that if there's an issue, what does it take to fix it? It's extremely actionable reasonably than really feel, we are born with problems and we will have to deal with these problems. There's nothing that we will do about it. It is a really empowered mindset.

They type of see technology not as an finish in itself however as a software for each single thing needed to build superb communities in this new world that we reside in.

Cindy: Such a good imaginative and prescient. Let's leap to that future. What does it appear to be if we get this proper? If we unleash all the Hack Clubbers and the opposite children who're using know-how and envisioning technologies to build a better world than the one now we have now. Take us to that world. What does it seem like?

Zach: I don't know if this is simply too large of an concept but I need to dwell in a world the place there's a hacker president. But in more concrete phrases, I want all the modern, exciting stuff to be open source as a result of it signifies that immediately the individuals who can engage with it, is not everyone who can afford to purchase a license to their firm but it is every single person that has technical data in your entire world and web access. I need to dwell in a world where the constraints of location, of locale are smaller than ever before.

Cindy: And what I really love about this imaginative and prescient is that it actually is a couple of motion. I feel one of many issues that distresses me about the tales popping out of the early web is they all seem to one guy who did one thing. And honestly, they're virtually all guys and guys of a sure colour. And I think that this way of storytelling, I am undecided it was truly all that true for these of us who lived via it however what I hear you is admittedly, actually doubling down on this idea that it takes a movement, that folks transfer collectively and that this kind of single particular person narrative will not be actually the narrative of good change and that you are working to strive to construct communities and networks so that we get past that.

Zach: And I believe that one factor that basically helps with that's the open supply motion and the open supply group as a result of it implies that if you're coding on real projects, the connection between you and the person that wrote that line of code is closer than ever. And also you see, wow, tasks like Ruby on Rails, they weren't built by one person. They have been built by 2,000 folks. And also you see that related things with large tasks, like Firefox, massive projects like Rust, these are issues that take tribes.

Cindy: Yeah. And let's just double down, we received to get these obstacles out of the way in which. Children need to have the ability to access all the information. They need to be able to proper click on on their Chromebooks and examine supply and all of this stuff. And the function of that, which sounds like humorous little geeky things, it's central to how we get from here to there.

Danny: Effectively, thank you a lot, Zach. I sit up for not solely seeing what it's important to give you in the future however seeing the next 20 years of what these youngsters produce.

Zach: Thanks a lot for having me here. It is such an honor to be able to affix you on this dialog. It's such an honor for Hack Clubbers to have their story and their struggles be a part of the conversation and for the work you are doing. Thanks, thanks, thank you, thanks, thanks.

Cindy: It goes both ways, Zach. You're raising the next era of EFF members, in all probability EFF staffers and possibly congressional and administrative staffers who have this in their bones. And that is the world. Just understanding how technology works is not sufficient. And I think that is really clear from what you are doing is you're constructing networks and you are constructing moral and responsible frameworks for how do you be anyone who understands about tech but is utilizing it for good?

Cindy: Zach, thanks so much. This has been so enjoyable talking to you and so inspiring. I agree, we started off and we have been talking about the problems that you are having and so they're tremendously vital. And of course that is where EFF's rubber meets the highway is making an attempt to get these obstacles out of the way. But we ended in such a contented place when it comes to this future. So thanks.

Cindy: I so admire listening to about optimistic, younger people finding, using and building the instruments to make things better and the function that the internet is taking part in in both helping them join, and helping them actually build this into a motion that is going to construct the tools which are going to make a better web sooner or later.

Danny: A lot of this speak of the surveillance and the censorship of youngsters is wrapped this idea of holding them protected. After which Zach who's caught in the middle. He goes to the web sites of those makers of filter technology the place they're literally claiming to be preventing faculty shootings and yet all of us want kids to be safe however I do query whether this is de facto security when Zack talks to the actual Hack Clubbers and they say that they feel like they're in an Orwellian surveillance state, that is not safety.

Cindy: No, no. And I feel college administrators, it is just clear that they are outgunned here and we want to essentially help them in recognizing what kids really need to develop. I additionally actually appreciated him speaking about coding as a form of self expression. Obviously that's close to and dear to my heart as EFF started with the concept code is speech but in addition that this self expression is not just in a constitutional sense. It's about a place the place I might be myself, where I can really be the real me and all of that coming out of the idea that people are learning learn how to code, this as a means of self expression it is just heartening.

Danny: You educate children how to precise themselves, whether it's code and talking up and then they get to be a part of that debate. And I believe they're an essential part of that debate.

Cindy: One of the things that I actually loved about the way Zach talked concerning the group he's building is it's being constructed by teenagers for teenagers, perhaps for the rest of us too. But recognizing that this neighborhood needs to be designing the technologies and developing the applied sciences that this neighborhood needs. That the place it must be centered. It jogs my memory of the conversation we had with Matt Mitchell, where he talked about communities needing to build the instruments that they want, whether they're in, where he was in Harlem or in a rural space or somewhere world wide. This community empowerment works not solely in geography but additionally within the difference between being a child and being an grownup.

Cindy: Nicely, because of our guest, Zach Latta, for sharing his optimism and the work that he's doing. If you'd like to start a Hack Club or donate to assist support them, they're at hackclub.com. There are related organizations all across the country and all internationally. But supporting this work, I believe is tremendously necessary to construct a future web that we all need to stay in.

Danny: Thanks again, for joining us. When you have any suggestions on this episode, do email us at podcast@eff.org. We read every e mail and we study from all your feedback. Should you do like what you hear, comply with us in your favorite podcast participant. We've acquired lots more episodes in retailer this season. Nat Keefe and Reed Mathis at Beat Mower made the music for this podcast with additional music and sounds used below the inventive commons license from CCMixter. You could find the credits for each of the musicians and hyperlinks to the music in our episode notes. How to repair the Internet is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Basis's program in the general public understanding of science and technology. I am Danny O'Brien.

Music for the way to fix the Internet was created for us by Reed Mathis and Nat Keefe of BeatMower. This podcast is licensed Artistic Commons Attribution 4.Zero International, and consists of music licensed Inventive Commons Attribution 3.Zero Unported by their creators. You can find their names and hyperlinks to their music in our episode notes, or on our web site at eff.org/podcast. I’m Danny O’Brien.

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