"Pour encourager les autres" - they don't care about Goehotz, this is aimed at lots of universities who are now drawing up guidelines about the legal consequenc

"Pour encourager les autres" - they don't care about Goehotz, this is aimed at lots of universities who are now drawing up guidelines about the legal consequence of doing any research into computer security. If you're Ross Anderson and Cambridge you can tell them to stuff it, if you are a new junior prof at Nowheresville U you might be persuaded to look at a new research area. 50 years ago the oil companies tried similar things to block Clair Patterson's research into lead in gasoline. If Caltech hadn't been so stubborn or there had been a law against analyzing gasoline we would still be breathing lead.