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...result was thousands of websites blocked, including 7,000 “wrongly blocked” websites that did not contain sexually explicit materials, Edelman said. These blocked sites included a man running for state legislature, many informational sites on AIDS and AIDS prevention and sites about breast cancer...
...which uses techniques like code breaking to find systemic flaws. For signs of what may come, look to the other side of the Atlantic, where the directive's U.S. counterpart, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, has spawned lawsuits involving threatened research. The E.U. directive, too, offers little explicit protection for computer scientists, says intellectual-property law expert Thomas Vinje. "I would not want to be representing them." That's bad news for researchers like Dutch cryptographer Niels Ferguson. Last year, he wrote a paper detailing weaknesses in an Intel encryption system. Fearful of legal liability...
While the committee stopped short of calling for an explicit ban on outsourcing in its report, the recommendations required contractors to pay wages and benefits that are at least equal to those paid to unionized Harvard employees...
...compromise, he says, is “maybe not the explicit sign-off they’re looking for,” but he feels it is justified. The sentence he agreed to add, furthermore, was simply added to a paragraph in a similar vein that was already there. And while he will say that there has been some wordplay through the controversy—the speech’s title has now been changed because of a fear that having the word jihad upfront would distract the audience from the speech’s message, he says, perhaps tellingly?...
...money. Sheik Bakr Mohammed bin Laden, Osama bin Laden’s brother, made two gifts totaling $2 million to the University to fund fellowships for the study of Islamic culture. Since the attacks, Harvard officials have stressed the University would cease using the funds if any explicit link to Osama bin Laden’s terrorist organization were found...