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Re:USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment by Talanes on Monday January 04, 2021 @04:04PM (#25638001)
That is horrible. Wasting tax dollars spying on schools.
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Re:USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment by PostOnce on Monday January 04, 2021 @07:25PM (#25640291)
Does Lincoln Lab count as MIT? Is it really a "school" per se?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Lincoln_Laboratory

It'd be pretty surprising if no one was attempting to spy on such organizations

I don't know what Tsinghua does but I can imagine a top school doing similar government-funded work anywhere

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Re:USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment by bboston7 on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:49PM (#25641044)
> It'd be pretty surprising if no one was attempting to spy on such organizations

Just last year a professor and two Chinese nationals at Harvard were indicted for something similar: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-...

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Re:USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment by season2episode3 on Monday January 04, 2021 @04:45PM (#25638609)
A country’s premier research university seems like a pretty normal espionage target.
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