Johns Hopkins Reverses Decision Forcing Prof To Pull NSA Post -- CNet
After a professor pens a blog post about the NSA's alleged clandestine program to break digital encryptions, the university asks him to take it down... then changes its mind.
Johns Hopkins University was alerted earlier Monday that one of its professors wrote a blog post allegedly linking to classified National Security Agency documents. Swiftly, the university asked this professor to take down his post. However, hours later, when the school realized he was just linking to news articles -- he was allowed to reinstate the blog post.
The whole debacle began after major news stories spread across the Web last Thursday detailing claims that the NSA has been setting up a clandestine program to break digital encryptions for everything from users' smartphones to everyday e-mails to medical records.
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University apologizes for censoring crypto prof over anti-NSA post -- Ars Technica
Hopkins lets professor re-post blog about NSA after it asked him to remove it -- Washington Post/AP
Professor told to delete NSA-related blog post from university site [UPDATE] -- RT
Academics decry Hopkins' removal of professor's blog post on NSA -- Baltimore Sun
Johns Hopkins forces cryptography professor to pull NSA-critical blog post -- Examiner
Johns Hopkins University Falls Victim to the NSA Chilling Effect -- Philip Bump, The Guardian
The NSA's next move: silencing university professors? -- Jay Rosen, The Guardian
