Re: Ashcroft Targets U.S. Cybercrime

[David Honig]

At 01:47 PM 7/21/01 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>As Declan and others have said, this may be the last time a DefCon is 
>held in the U.S. (Not that other countries are necessarily better. 
>Attendees in Canada may face arrest by the Mounties for hate crimes, 
>for violating the Teale-Homulka censorship, for working for a 
>magazine which has broken Canadian laws, etc. And as the Henson case 
>showed, the Canadian SWAT ninjas are perfectly willing to do a "take 
>down" when their bosses to the south order it.)
>
>--Tim May

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,