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This professor is indescribably awesome.

Maybe he can team up with that professor from cambridge who wrote that letter to the banks and they can be an international crimefighting duo.

The Cambridge professor was Ross Anderson. He replied to a letter from UK Cards Association requesting the university to take down a research paper by a PhD student. The issue was about the chip-and-pin no-pin vulnerability.

HN Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2039117

Take down request: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/20101221110342233.pdf (pdf)

Professor Anderson's reply: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ukca.pdf (pdf)

More reasons he's awesome- he wrote a fantastic introductory book to Common Lisp in 1990 that holds up to this day. It's also considered a good general early CS text by many.

It is available for free download from his own directory at CMU: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/

Now I know why the name sounded familiar!

I know! Makes me really proud to have gone to school there and pissed that I wasn't in computer science and learning from that guy

He was a guest lecturer for one of my classes a few years back and talked about all the stuff he went through to keep up the Scientology documents. Pretty ridiculous all in all-I must say I almost certainly wouldn't be willing to deal with all the bs he went through. Glad someone was willing though.

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