Crypto Rebels
Cypherpunks will make the networks safe for privacy.
Archives: Expert Predictions
Crypto Rebels
“The most important impact of technology on communications security is that it draws better and better traffic into vulnerable channels.” Digital Telephony, if passed, would grant law-enforcement access not only to phone conversations, but a whole range of personal information previously stored in hard copy but ripe for plucking in the digital age. And if law enforcement can get at it, so can others – either government agents over-stepping their legal authority, or crooks.
Crypto Rebels
If we fail to enact legislation that will ensure a continued capability for court-ordered electronic surveillance … systems fielded without an adequate provision for court-ordered intercepts would become sanctuaries for criminality wherein Organized Crime leaders, drug dealers, terrorists, and other criminals could conspire and act with impunity. Eventually, we could find ourselves with an increase in major crimes against society, a greatly diminished capacity to fight them, and no timely solution.
Crypto Rebels
We have the capability of 100-percent privacy. But if we use this I don’t think society can survive.
Crypto Rebels
The people in this room hope for a world where an individual’s informational footprints – everything from an opinion on abortion to the medical record of an actual abortion – can be traced only if the individual involved chooses to reveal them; a world where coherent messages shoot around the globe by network and microwave, but intruders and feds trying to pluck them out of the vapor find only gibberish; a world where the tools of prying are transformed into the instruments of privacy. There is only one way this vision will materialize, and that is by widespread use of cryptography.
Goodbye, Gutenberg: Pixilating Peer Review is Revolutionizing Scholarly Journals
Given the decreasing cost of hard-disk storage, it is likely that mathematicians a decade from now could house the entire body of mathematical literature in their desktop computers.
Goodbye, Gutenberg: Pixilating Peer Review is Revolutionizing Scholarly Journals
The journal model will evolve toward not a publishing operation but a gatekeeping operation. The journal can be a vehicle for reassuring deans, provosts, promotion and tenure committees, and other gatekeepers in the system that we’ve succeeded in the electronic environment in installing quality controls of the kind we’ve been used to having in the print environment
Goodbye, Gutenberg: Pixilating Peer Review is Revolutionizing Scholarly Journals
Just as the bicycle form eventually stabilized, Guedon expects that electronic journal design will, too, though the process may take five or ten more years. In the meantime, he says, the journals that flourish will almost certainly be those designed with enough flexibility to evolve.
Goodbye, Gutenberg: Pixilating Peer Review is Revolutionizing Scholarly Journals
The emergence of electronic publishing has evoked so much fear among print publishers that two years ago a representative of Oxford University Press, which publishes 154 scholarly print journals and a single electronic one, declared at a symposium: “I feel like a deer caught in the headlights of an onrushing truck.”
Mail Bonding
Historically, the strength of an academic department rested with its resident faculty. Now it depends on the extreme to which each faculty member is interconnected with other professionals – worldwide – pursuing similar interests. And these associations do not rely on face-to-face contact. We now have electronic research teams and electronic water coolers. This drastically changes – weakens in my opinion – indigenous workplace relationships and affects workplace cohesiveness.