Ashcroft Targets U.S. Cybercrime

jamesd at echeque.com jamesd at echeque.com
Sun Jul 22 16:44:38 PDT 2001


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> 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.

On 21 Jul 2001, at 19:09, David Honig wrote:
> 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.

It is common for real world authors to publish under nom de plumes.  Adding a key to a nom de plume gives added advantages to the nom de plume.

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