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Diffie & Hellman Get $100,000 Fellowship

Posted by michael on from the richly-deserved dept.

MoNickels writes "Diffie & Hellman will receive a $100,000 fellowship from the Marconi Foundation for their work in encryption. The panel discussion Oct. 10 at Columbia University in New York should be rich. Check out these names: George Heilmeier (former head of Bellcore) will speak, then the panel will include Diffie and Hellman, Eric Ash, Leonard Kleinrock (inventor of packet switching) and Paul Baran (co-inventor of packet switching)."

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  1. There are Doors and then there are Doors by BlackHat · · Score: 3

    Take the following remark from FBI agent Jim Kallstrom as quoted in an article by Steven Levy in
    the New York Times Sunday Magazine: "Sure, we want those new steel doors ourselves, to protect our banks, to protect the American corporation trade secrets, patents rights, technology. But people operating in legitimate business are not violating the laws -- it becomes a different ball of wax when we have probable cause and we have to get into that domain. Do we want a digital superhighway where not only the commerce of the nation can take place but where major criminals can operate impervious to the legal process?"

    1. Exactly how does the meatworld highway give us this ability to restrict criminals from using them? Do wee look in every car that passes a tollbooth?

    2. Given that many "legitimate business" are in a perptual state of litigation, define criminal activity in wireworld?

    3. Ideas "trade secrets, patents rights, technology" do not fit in physical protected boxes why should we extend it to wireworld.

    Interesting FAQ too bad it is packed with lots of questions and few answers.

    1. Re:There are Doors and then there are Doors by Trevor+Goodchild · · Score: 2
      It's just typical law enforcement blather. You gotta remember, these people think very differently from us, and if we didn't act to reign them in we would probably be living in a totalitarian police state by now.

      It scares me that some people can get so involved in their one field that they end up with blinders to the rest of the world. I don't think these people are being intentionally evil, they are just too involved with their one niche. Tunnel vision is dangerous.