May 10, 2003

How much knowledge is safe?

A piece on Kuro5hin argues that the costs of witholding potentially dangerous scientific and technical information are greater than the costs of releasing them. I tend to agree. The collective wisdom of scientific journal editors reached a somewhat more cautious conclusion. However, a recent article in The Economist expresses doubts that this caution is having much effect in practice.

Posted by timo at May 10, 2003 02:25 PM | TrackBack
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