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Honest question, why do you feel you are unable to talk freely about what you worked on? It seems odd to me that 10/15 years later one would not talk openly ab
by marktangotango 11y ago
Honest question, why do you feel you are unable to talk freely about what you worked on? It seems odd to me that 10/15 years later one would not talk openly about past projects. Certainly any NDA's have long since expired?
- mcguire 11y agoI feel perfectly free to talk about anything I've worked on. I doubt anyone is particularly interested, though. Heck, it bores me. In roughly 2005, shortly after I finished my Ph.D. and while I was busy not finding a research job, I went to work at IBM as a contractor. The project I was working on, xCP, was a peer-to-peer distributed system for securely sharing digital media, i.e. between various devices in a user's home or car. It used a technique called broadcast encryption, much of which IP is owned by IBM (Jeff Lotspiech worked for IBM[1]). I wrote the C version of the prototype distributed system including translating (and fixing) the (horribly, horribly broken) Java reference implementation of the broadcast encryption library. Shortly afterwards, the project was cancelled and IBM's Pervasive Computing division (not Pervasive Computing the company) disappeared like a puff of smoke. Then I remembered why I didn't want to work for IBM again. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Access_Content_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Access_Content_System