Overview

Hey all, here’s a brief overview of a few of the goals and thoughts about the site. This is all fairly nascent, but needs to move fairly soon because we’re starting to roll out our campaign more seriously and having a hub site to point them to would be ideal.

The goal of the website is to serve as a hub for the activism surrounding CFAA reform. Ideally, yes, this means promoting the campaign over a long period of time, and being able to build in parts that make the site more engaging.

EFF’s site is great for content, but it isn’t a site geared towards engaging people who are only just learning about the issue, nor is it engaging for people generally who don’t want to just read huge amounts of text. I love it and use it as a resource for advocacy information, but I see this site as being about engagement.

The potential components that have been discussed so far are:

1. An overview of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, as well as Aaron’s Law and how it fixes it.

2. A history of it, tying it to the movie WarGames from 1983

3. Profiles of a variety of victims of the CFAA’s absurd penalties

4. Some sort of survey or game-type thing that either:

A. Lets people click through a list of things they’ve done, and then computes a sort of wanted poster for time they could face. Or

B. Lets people jail famous innovators who violated the CFAA in their youth as part of their experimentation, but saw no penalties and went on to change the world (Gates, Jobs, Wozniak, etc)

5. Place for updates about cases, which happens approximately weekly.

6. A way to take action/sign up for e-mail alerts on just about every page (as well as more action, when appropriate).

Content updating as a result should be possible, but doesn’t need a really high frequency. Certainly not all of this needs to be up at once, but we do need at least a few pieces up sooner.

--Charlie