Kim Zetter, Students Fight E-Vote Firm, Wired News, October 21, 2003. On the student "civil disobedience" campaign to link to the Diebold corporate memos. The memos allegedly show that for years Diebold knew about large security holes in its voting software and yet sold it without warning to various U.S. jurisdictions. The memos were copied and leaked to the press by a hacker who found another kind of security hole in Diebold's FTP server. Diebold is taking legal action to remove the documents and links from the web. Quoting Luke Smith, a Swarthmore student participating in the campaign: "They're using copyright law as a means of suppressing information that needs to be public." Also see the student press release.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/22/2003 08:57:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
