Yostivanich

Ok so I don’t have much to add this other than stu­pid gov­ern­ment. Basi­cally the FBI has decided that to “fight ter­ror­ism and stu­dent extrem­ists” they are pro­mot­ing a set of guidlines(PDF) to pin­point poten­tial for­eign spies or ter­ror­ists. Not a bad idea, how­ever bad plan, because they basi­cally say that stu­dents can be inter­ested in any­thing but their own work, can’t travel over­seas, can’t work late hours, main­tain con­tacts with for­eign nation­als, and more. The prob­lem with these guide­lines is that every stu­dent breaks them, num­ber one, also, when has infor­ma­tion ever been con­tained to just the group of researchers? Research and infor­ma­tion is like that it won’t stop sim­ply because some­one wishes it to, sci­en­tific jour­nals, research papers, inter­net chat rooms, and more all pro­vide avenues that researchers pub­lish their infor­ma­tion to. The infor­ma­tion is pub­lished so the researchers can gain fund­ing for more projects, if their projects are kept locked down they will not recieve fund­ing to either con­tu­ine their cur­rent project or fund new projects.

Also how many stu­dents are hon­estly so wrapped up in their own work that when a friend comes and talks about a cool new idea, they will blow them off and say that it is out­side their “job descrip­tion” to dis­cuss this? Per­son­ally I am inter­ested in a range of sub­jects and fol­low the infor­ma­tion in these sub­jects closely, from physics, chem­istry, biol­ogy, com­put­ers (my actual field), his­tory, math­e­mat­ics, and many more. Sim­ply being a well rounded per­son mean that I am spy or that I actu­ally enjoy learn­ing and edu­cat­ing myself? The remain­der of these guide­lines are equally vague and mean­ing­less in a uni­ver­sity and the aca­d­e­mic world. Researchers will con­tact those that have the lat­est infor­ma­tion whether they live in China, the U.K., Ger­many, South Africa, or Mon­tana. The late hours is crazy, has any­body ever seen some­one who wasn’t enthu­si­as­tic about their work not work late and odd hours?

This is a bad idea, the poten­tial here for try­ing to have peo­ple untrained in secu­rity and intel­li­gence field out spies will only cause prob­lems and false alarms, espe­cially with the ridicu­lous guide­lines provided.

jtyost2

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