Peter Eckersley

Peter Eckersley

IT Director at Electronic Frontier Foundation

Peter Eckersley is an advisor to 3Scan and Director of Technology Projects for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.  Attentive to technologies that, by accident or design, pose a risk to the freedoms of users, looking for ways to solve them. Among his works are privacy and security projects such as Panopticlick, HTTPS Everywhere, SSDI and the SSL Observatory; and running the first controlled tests to confirm that Comcast was using reset packets to interfere with P2P protocols.

He holds a PhD in Law and Computer Science from the University of Melbourne; his research focuses on the practicality and desirability of using alternative compensation systems to legalize P2P file sharing and similar distribution tools while still paying authors and artists for their work.

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