----- Forwarded message from John Gilmore
Johns Hopkins University censored this exact blog post by Prof. Green, because of a complaint from its local defense contractor affiliated with NSA, the Applied Physics Laboratory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_Physics_Laboratory). The university gets slight credit for backtracking one day after the censorship story hit Twitter and the press. So the blog post is now back (and is still worth reading). Here's the story: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/10/nsa-matthew-green-taked... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130909/11193024453/johns-hopkins-tells-se... http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/crypto-prof-asked-to-remove-nsa-rela... http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/09/a-note-on-nsa-future-and-fix... Now, why is it that so many folks with links to NSA think like totalitarians? It's wonderful seeing them crawl out of the woodwork and try to give orders to the public about what it is allowed to think, what it is allowed to read, and what it is allowed to write. It's only wonderful because the huge public counter-reaction protects us -- the totalitarians reveal their true colors, but they don't actually get to tell us what to do. Thank you, fellow denizens of the world, for creating your own freedom, by making a lot of noise when some NSA-affiliated idiot tries to take it away. John PS: How much NSA tax money does JHU's Applied Physics Lab get? I don't know, but here's a guy on LinkedIn who worked at NSA in the past, works at the Lab today, and brags that he's managing a $120M contract from NSA: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-trent/18/a95/b04 _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5