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Hopkins Allows NSA Encryption Blog to Stay Online

The university originally told a professor of computer science his blog linked to "classified material."

Johns Hopkins University has decided to let a professor’s blog about the National Security Agency’s attempt to break encryption to remain online, according to the Baltimore Business Journal. 

ProPublica reported that Mathew Green, who teaches computer science, was told to take the post off the university website because the blog linked to "classified material," even though the links were to documents already published by news media outlets, such as the New York Times. 

Green reportedly sent a tweet that he was told to take the post down because someone at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins, which works with several federal agencies including the NSA, flagged the post.

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Dennis O’Shea, a spokesman for the university, said the school reversed course after the NSA logo was removed and it was clear that Green was linking to information that was already made public, according to The Baltimore Sun.    


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