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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