Administered by:
"A community of scholars should not have to build walls as high as the sky to protect a reasonable expectation of privacy [msw: or 'security'], particularly when such walls will equally impede the free flow of information.
There is a reasonable trust between scholars in the pursuit of knowledge, a trust upon which the users of the Internet have relied for many years.
This policy of trust has yielded significant benefits to the computer science community and, through the contributions of that community, to the world at large.
Violations of such a trust cannot be condoned. Even if there are unintended side benefits, which is arguable, there is a greater loss to the community as a whole."
- The Cornell Commission: On Morris and the Worm
Given the latest attack on the Internet through persistent threat actors via xz-utils, what demands will be placed on the community of scholars (including Free and Open Source software developers) that build the software we all use and enjoy as digital public goods?
Will they be "walls as high as the skies?"
