Ashcroft Targets U.S. Cybercrime

[David Honig]

At 08:46 PM 7/21/01 -0500, measl at mfn.org wrote:
>On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, David Honig wrote:
>
>> All this argues for anonymously coded projects, etc.  But that
>> means you can't get credit for novel research.  This is one
>> of the ways that the DCMA is counter to historically unimpeded
>> research & innovation ---Its not rational for profs sans tenure 
>> to work without credit.
>> 
>> Publish or perish, 
>
>While it is of little real-world usefulness, it should be noted that such
>annonymous publication can retain credit towards an individual author by
>being published under a publicly published yet anonymous public key.
>

That doesn't work when you tell your department that you are the author
associated with some (formerly) anonymous key.

Yes, it does work in the world of building reputations associated with
(anonymous
or claimed-not-anonymous) keys, but not when you need meatspace credit
--give the meat named "Prof Joe" tenure credit for work X.

Cheers,