more on Research under fire?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dana Blankenhorn <danablankenhorn () mindspring com>
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:20:14 -0500
To: <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] Research under fire?

The practical effect of putting roadblocks in front of research is not to
preserve security, but to accelerate the move of leading edge
research to other countries.

The xenophobia and paranoia of our government is undermining its own
security.

But let me put this in a more practical way.

The NY Times story on breaking cryptography that came in just before this
one. (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/29/national/29key.html?oref=login) It
is a VERY short step from what is being done to researchers and using
"national security" as an excuse to prohibit the publication of this story.

Forget about right or wrong for a moment. I'm ot arguing that.

The point is a practical one. Putting roadblocks in front of knowledge
doesn't stop it from coming about -- it moves offshore.

We were lucky in the Cold War. The enemy was even more xenophobic and stupid
than we are.

Will we be that lucky this time? Yes, against Muslims.

But the "enemy" in the current conflict isn't just the Muslims in Iraq or
anywhere else. It's the Indians, the Europeans, the Japanese, the Chinese.
It's an economic war which you can only lose if you don't play. And moves
like this represent unilateral disarmament in that war.





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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Farber" <dave () farber net>
To: "Ip" <ip () v2 listbox com>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 5:34 PM
Subject: [IP] Research under fire?


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> From: "Lawrence A. Rowe" <Rowe () CS Berkeley EDU>
> Organization: U.C. Berkeley
> Reply-To: <Rowe () CS Berkeley EDU>
> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:41:09 -0800
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Something for IP?
>
> hi dave - the attached article appeared locally at berkeley.  if you
> haven't
> posted something on the topic yet, i suspect IP folks would find it
> interesting.
> /larry
>
> -- 
> Lawrence A. Rowe (Emeritus Professor, UC Berkeley)
> 925-218-2221  http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~larry
>
> --------------
> Research under fire: In the war on terror, academic freedom could wind up
> as
> collateral damage
>
> By Barry Bergman, Public Affairs, UC Berkeley | 27 January 2005
>
> The University of California's credo, "Fiat lux" ("Let there be light"),
> celebrates the power of knowledge. Federal officials, however, mindful
> that
> power is a double-edged sword, seem intent on imposing an alternate,
> post-9/11
> credo on those who conduct university research: Let there be licenses.
>
> In an age when data can be dangerous, the Bush administration is clearly
> concerned with keeping classified information out of the hands of
> America's
> enemies, from terrorist networks to hostile regimes.
>
> ...
>
>  http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2005/01/27_acfreedom.shtml
>
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