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Kapor, Mitch; Groove: Software Pioneer Quits Board of Groove, New York Times, New York 2003.
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March 11, 2003
Software Pioneer Quits Board of Groove
March 11, 2003
By JOHN MARKOFF
Mitchell Kapor, who resigned from the board of his software company, Groove Networks (
Kim Kulish
)
SAN FRANCISCO, March 10 - Mitchell D. Kapor, a personal
computer industry software pioneer and a civil liberties
activist, has resigned from the board of Groove Networks
after learning that the company's software was being used
by the Pentagon as part of its development of a domestic
surveillance system.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/11/business/11PRIV.html?ex=1048407299&ei=1&en=a4be50b3a3c30519
"Computer scientists are going to have the same kinds of
battles that physicists did amidst the fallout of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki," said Michael Schrage, a senior adviser to
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Security Studies
Program.