IP: Good question NSA TAPS UNIVERSITIES FOR INFO SECURITY STUDIES -- from Edupage

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>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 
>   Edupage
>
> >The 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).
>
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