What if your research were relevant to a court proceeding, but the court ordered that anything revealed in the hearing should be gagged forever? What if the reward for undertaking socially useful research was court-ordered silence? This is happening to two Cambridge University computer scientists whose encryption research may help London's High Court of Justice figure out how two accused thieves hacked ATMs to learn PINs and steal money.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/21/2003 05:02:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
