[samirmenon]

The New York Times actually broke the story.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensore...

[herbig]

The first words of the EFF article are "The New York Times". This article, as the title suggests, goes more into the "dangers of unchecked surveillance" in a digital age.

[Mithrandir]

Here's the letter: http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/11/16/magazine/16Lede2/m...

[Curmudgel]

If you read that document carefully, you can see that the EFF edited one of passages that they quoted and did not mention their edit, which is a big no-no. The original letter says:

  (this exact number has been selected for a specific reason,
  it has definite practical significant.

which the EFF quoted as

  (this exact number has been selected for a specific reason,
  it has definite practical significance).

[dang]

Yes. We changed the url to that from https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr... as the "original" source.

[rooster8]

I understand that it's policy to change the URLs to the original source, but in this case I feel the EFF article was a better discussion piece.