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2005-06-07 Home Front: WoT

Feds: Science paper a terrorist's road map

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Posted by Rafael 2005-06-07 00:13|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm sure Yifan Liu (who did all the actual work) has passed on the full report to his controller.

Posted by gromky">gromky 2005-06-07 00:39|| 2005-06-07 00:39|| Front Page Top

#2 fate can be cruel. Most likely it will be his baby who dies.

Posted by 2b 2005-06-07 01:47|| 2005-06-07 01:47|| Front Page Top

#3 gromsky, even I'm not surprised. Though where didja figure that Prof. Wein did absolutely nothing?

Posted by Edward Yee">Edward Yee 2005-06-07 03:13|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2005-06-07 03:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Cant the Feds just make it a classified document? It gets published, which is what the Prof and student work towards, but noone reads it.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2005-06-07 08:28|| 2005-06-07 08:28|| Front Page Top

#5 The NAS has been pushing for open source availability of all data and results generated by federally funded and other research. They have a lot of supporters on this in the academic science community, with a strong emphasis on the social justice issues involved. For a related topic, watch what is going on re: intellectual property in recent international forums as Brazil and other countries argue (with some justification) that a few western corporations have been allowed to rip them off by patenting traditional knowledge about plants etc. and then charging high fees for the use of those plants in medicines.

So this paper has been written within a larger debate about security vs. free access to scientific research results. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.

Posted by rkb 2005-06-07 09:02|| 2005-06-07 09:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Edward:

A professor doing the work? No, no, no. EVERYBODY knows the grad students do the work and the prof gets the credit (and the tenure).

Posted by growler 2005-06-07 10:32|| 2005-06-07 10:32|| Front Page Top

#7 As somebody allergic to milk.... I am glad this wasn't a plan of attack on soy!

Posted by 3dc 2005-06-07 10:35|| 2005-06-07 10:35|| Front Page Top

#8 God help the idiot who dares to screw with the enjoyment of my coffee!

Posted by Tkat 2005-06-07 10:47|| 2005-06-07 10:47|| Front Page Top

#9 You dare violate the purity of black coffee?! Blasphemy! Jihad on you, infidel!

Posted by BH 2005-06-07 15:17|| 2005-06-07 15:17|| Front Page Top

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