I don't understand this. Of all the alphabet soup privacy groups out there, EPIC is the one I consider most pro-privacy and anonymity other than the ACLU itself. And EPIC knows the tech better, on the whole (although the ACLU is quite clued-up too). It is true that EPIC is not absolutist on SAFE -- and I'm not quite sure that they are right to give even the inch they gave to get a mile -- but they're awfully good.
I agree EPIC has been one of the better groups, but I personally feel none of them can ever do any good: They all sell out in the name of compromise. Also, they seem to have people within them that simply do not understand what they are talking about, for example, Marc yesterday commented that he would support a law to ban private companies asking for SSNs for anything other than tax purposes, this is a clear misunderstanding of the nature of private companies and private property. Datacomms Technologies data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: FC76DA85 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"