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The Internet's librarian: Brewster Kahle, archivist and idealist
- Create 18y agoThe Internet Archive was served a National Security Letter by the FBI demanding information about a patron of the Archive. The Archive fought it with the help of the EFF and ACLU. We won. We can now talk about it, and what it is like to get a secret demand. We hope that this will be useful for the others that will receive these powerful demands. http://www.archive.org/details/National-Security-Letter-Video http://www.archive.org/details/National-Security-Letter-Vide...
- zandorg 18y agoBrewster's an incredibly nice guy. I emailed the Internet Archive about a piece of OCR software I've developed, and, even though I just emailed their generic contact, Brewster got in touch (email in lowercase!) and said "Can you scan the numbers in index pages". I didn't really manage it, but I was amazed he replied in person.