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The Electronic Frontier Foundation was founded in April 1990 by John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor. These two men established the organization after encountering law enforcement agents during Operation Sundevil and realizing the need for digital civil rights protection.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's first major case involved a raid on Steve Jackson Games offices in Texas early in 1990. Agents seized computer equipment and floppy disks containing game materials like GURPS Cyberpunk while mistakenly labeling the role-playing game as a handbook for computer crime.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation maintains its primary headquarters at 815 Eddy Street in San Francisco California since April 2013. The group previously operated from Washington DC before moving operations to San Francisco under Executive Director Lori Fena in 1995.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation received $1 million from Google in 2011 as part of a privacy settlement involving Google Buzz. An additional $1 million came from Facebook through similar settlements though critics protested these arrangements.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation broke Data Encryption Standard codes down to 56 hours by the 17th of July 1998 using their Deep Crack machine. The system achieved results in under 24 hours by the 19th of January 1999 after costing $210,000 to build.