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Joining CRF is easy! CRF Memberships are annual, and at year's-end, we'll let you know what's going on at CRF (in case you're not already up-to-date) and ask you to renew your membership for the new year. If you have any questions about membership, you can read our ByLaws, or contact us using the Feedback Form, or by telephoning Headquarters during regular business hours and asking (or leaving a voicemail) for "membership services".

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Why You Should Become a Member of the CryptoRights Foundation!

As a CRF Member, you have a vote and you can make sure we're doing the best things that we should be doing to further our Mission. It also means you're providing the essential funding that makes it possible to operate a volunteer organization trying to do good works on several continents with nothing but lots of wonderful people and only a tiny overhead budget to work with.

Becoming a CryptoRights Member means so much more than receiving a T-Shirt. It means you're actively supporting CRF's Mission by helping the volunteers of the world's first and only human rights communications security organization. It also means that you're committed to preserving the freedoms of security researchers who are working on open, verifiable security in the public interest against extraordinary opposition. You're also helping us watch the watchers and make sure that the security they promise to the public is real and not just "security theater," or worse, being secretly abused or neglected for profit or to maintain undemocratic power.

CRF does no lobbying, but lobbying the government remains an important function, so CRF supports our colleagues at organizations which do lobby the government on the public's behalf, and who are trying to establish jurisprudence and legislation that expresses the goal of equal freedom for all in a peaceful world. However, someone must also demonstrate why every world citizen should have the unrestricted right to have her or his own opinions, and discuss how a lack of equality among all human beings will only create more terror, more fear, more dangerous secrets and more deadly conflicts. Think about it: the right to keep a secret from your own government in your own head (or wherever you choose to keep it) is the basis of democracy (the "secret ballot") and only this freedom prevents the establishment of police states and promotes a safer, more secure, more egalitarian society — not ruled by paranoia — where every individual, no matter how wealthy or poor, no matter her or his appearance age or abilities, has the right to participate in the fair selection of representatives, in the public determination of policy and governance and in regular and fair changes of leadership.

But you probably wouldn't even be reading this if you didn't understand this already, so we'll just remind you that:

• we need funding to maintain our push for positive examples of security; and
• premium memberships receive additional benefits!