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IP: Good question NSA TAPS UNIVERSITIES FOR INFO SECURITY STUDIES -- from Edupage
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 16:36:30 -0400
X-Sender: jwarren () mail well com Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:03:01 -0700 To: farber () cis upenn edu From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com> Subject: Re: IP: NSA TAPS UNIVERSITIES FOR INFO SECURITY STUDIES -- from EdupageThe National Security Agency ... says the centers will become "focal points for recruiting, and may create a climate to encourage independent research in information assurance." The seven universities--James Madison, George Mason, Idaho State, Iowa State, Purdue, Idaho, and the University of California at Davis--will be formally named at an IBM information security systems conference on May 25-29. (EE Times Online 05/12/99)But one of the most important questions is -- will those institutions vigorously pursue public research sharing and enforce open publication of their research results? Or will they just grab the NSA money and obediently trash the most fundamental principle of academic freedom? We had that battle at Stanford about 30 years ago -- and Stanford decided that it was an academic institution; not just a money sucking "nonprofit" org ... and severed all ties with its secrecy-prone Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International, and entirely independent of Stanford, the principled university). --jim, Jim Warren, jwarren () well com, GovAccess list-owner/[im]moderator/janitor 345 Swett Rd, Woodside CA 94062; 650-851-7075; fax-for-the-quaint/650-851-2814 - To add or drop GovAccess, email to Majordomo () well com ('Subject' ignored) with message: [un]subscribe GovAccess YourEmailAddress (insert your eaddr) For brief description of GovAccess, send MajorDomo the msg: info GovAccess
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