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The NSA's next move: silencing university professors?
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 08:25AM
A Johns Hopkins computer science professor blogs on the NSA and is asked to take it down. I fear for academic freedom!
This actually happened yesterday:
A professor in the computer science department at Johns Hopkins, a leading American university, had written a post on his blog, hosted on the university's servers, focused on his area of expertise, which is cryptography. The post was highly critical of the government, specifically the National Security Agency, whose reckless behavior in attacking online security astonished him.
Professor Matthew Green wrote on 5 September:
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