Crack open a Club-Mate and raise a glass to strong crypto. There’s reason to celebrate. Today, the 100,000th person signed our petition calling on President Obama to reject compelled backdoors in our communications. The campaign, hosted at SaveCrypto.org, uses the White House's We the People API to feed signatures into a petition hosted on Obama’s preferred petition platform. The campaign was the work of over 40 nonprofits and tech companies, including Access Now, Fight for the Future, OpenMedia, Mozilla, Sum of Us, Twitter, Google, and DropBox. President Obama has promised to respond to any petition that gets 100,000 signatures within 30 days. We made it with time to spare. What does this mean? The petition lays out high-level concepts, like the value of encryption to a strong, secure Internet that we can all trust. And it also has some clear specifications: that undermining our rights shouldn’t be part of “legislation, executive…
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