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>>(very unfortunately), the papers are often behind paywalls or otherwise inaccessible This is what Aaron Swartz was suicided for (allegedly) (I have my own th
by samstave 4y ago
>>(very unfortunately), the papers are often behind paywalls or otherwise inaccessible
This is what Aaron Swartz was suicided for (allegedly) (I have my own theory on why he died, but I would never share that on HN.
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Its a complex problem though - ESPECIALLY when said papers/research are fully funded by public tax payer dollars, then de-facto those papers should be public... but it IS also a matter of national security...
If [ENEMY STATE] can just harvest all the academic research of the US, then why do it themselves. So there is that.
Though, one could take a CIA route, and change aspects of the papers which are public such that the gist comes across, but methodologies are either tampered with or omitted such that one would still have to do the remaining work to succeed.
This was what was really interesting to me about DUQU/StuxNet.
But yeah, Swartz was not killed for JSTOR access/theft... (or maybe he was to prevent enemy states getting all these papers?)
- felurx 4y ago[ENEMY STATE], as you put it, can already harvest most of everyone's (including the US') published research via Sci-Hub, and probably some similar projects. A nation-state actor could probably run their own internal Sci-Hub equivalent that uses stolen credentials etc if they wanted/needed to. Published research already is de facto public, the question is just about whether we want to make those people who access it criminals, to oversimplify a bit. I'm a bit worried by your semi-nationalist attitude, but I suppose that is besides the point of this comment.