From pdfernhout@kurtz-fernhout.com Fri Jul 6 02:41:35 2018 From: "Paul D. Fernhout" To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: [Open Manufacturing] Slashdot | Professor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Sharing Drone Plans With Students Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:41:35 +0000 Message-ID: <172289035612.3849117.7149747869828109962.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6194225041033538199==" --===============6194225041033538199== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/03/1721230/Professor-Gets-4-Years-in-Pris= on-for-Sharing-Drone-Plans-With-Students "Retired University of Tennessee Professor Dr. John Reece Roth has been=20 sentenced to four years in prison after he allowed a Chinese graduate=20 student to see sensitive information on Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs), also=20 known as drones. In 2004, the company Roth helped found, Atmospheric Glow=20 Technologies, won a US Air Force contract to develop a plasma actuator that=20 could help reduce drag on the wings of drones, such as the ones the military = uses. Under the contract, for which Roth was reportedly paid $6,000, he was=20 prohibited from sharing sensitive data with foreign nationals. Despite=20 warnings from his university's Export Control Officer, in 2006, Roth took a=20 laptop containing sensitive plans with him on a lecture tour in China and=20 also allowed graduate students Xin Dai of China and Sirous Nourgostar of=20 Iran to work on the project. 'The illegal export of restricted military data = represents a serious threat to national security,' says David Kris of the US = Department of Justice. 'We know that foreign governments are actively=20 seeking this information for their own military development. Today's=20 sentence should serve as a warning to anyone who knowingly discloses=20 restricted military data in violation of our laws.' During his trial, Roth=20 testified that he was unaware that hiring the graduate students was a=20 violation of his contract. 'This whole thing has not helped me, it has not=20 helped the university,' said Roth. 'And it has probably not helped this=20 country, either.'" http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=3Dtennes= see-physicist-sentenced-to-4-2009-07-03 http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jun/24/atmospheric-glow-to-sell/ http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=3D104&STORY=3D/www= /story/07-01-2009/0005053691&EDATE=3D Some space related technology has similar restrictions. So, scarcity-oriented organizations are preventing information flow to other = scarcity-oriented organizations using post-scarcity means (bureaucracy,=20 computers coordinating data collection, government tax dollars raised=20 through cooperation). But in the process they are producing artificial=20 scarcity for everyone, because it is not clear what you can legally share is = some fields. In general, stories like this have a chilling effect on=20 cross-border cooperation. People had related stories at the SSI conferences=20 about legal issues sharing information related to rocketry and satellites. Similar paranoia crippled and delayed strong encryption in the USA, one of=20 the reason the internet is a less safe place today as far as phishing and=20 other problems. --Paul Fernhout http://www.pdfernhout.net/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Op= en Manufacturing" group. To post to this group, send email to openmanufacturing(a)googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to openmanufacturing+unsubscribe(a= )googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/openmanu= facturing?hl=3Den -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- ----- End forwarded message ----- --=20 Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============6194225041033538199==--