Scientists become targets in Iraq

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Academics, intellectuals and scientists are increasingly assassinated or kidnapped in violence ridden Iraq, which appears as a systematic effort to eliminate or exile a group crucial to the country's reconstruction. Breakdown in security and stability under US occupation and lack of investigations and prosecutions have led to increased crime and corruption.

Legal issues & crime, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Police Protection, Scientists, Labor Distribution by Employer, Civil Disturbances, Company legal issue, Investigations, Crimes against, Statistics, Kidnapping, Scholars, Public safety crimes, Offenses against public safety

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US intelligence exposed as student decodes Iraq memo

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Claire Whelan, a graduate student in computer science at Dublin City University in Ireland and one of her PhD supervisors David Naccache, a cryptographer with Gemplus, tackled and managed to decrypt two high profile documents of the US intelligence. The method used by them and the contents of the memo are discussed.

National Security, Military Intelligence, Evaluation, Practice, Cryptographers, Whelan, Claire

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Publishers irritated by Google's digital library

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An argument is developing between academic publishers and Google over the internet-search company's plan to digitize and index library collections at major research universities. Some publishers complain that Google did not consult them, and that scanning library collections could be illegal.

United States, Strategy & planning, Scholarly publishing, Management, Planning, Information services, Information services industry, Company business management, Company business planning, Google Inc., Digital libraries

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