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Sweden's public radio reportedly bans SETI from office computers
- Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 15:22:14 -0500
- To: politech@politechbot.com
- Subject: FC: Sweden's public radio reportedly bans SETI from office computers
- From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
- Cc: davea@ssl.berkeley.edu
SETI homepage:
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
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Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 21:10:05 +0100
To: declan@well.com
From: Ulf Hedlund <guru@slideware.com>
Subject: Swedish national radio bans SETI software
Conspiracy theory has reached the state owned public service radio in
Sweden, "Sveriges Radio" (www.sr.se). They have banned all use of the SETI
software and says that three of the technicians from the IT department are
going to be relocated. According to the head of human resources, Per
Thorsell, this is due to the fact that they don't know if the software is
actually performing search for extraterrestrial life. "The software could
be used by some service for other purposes, i.e. calculation of missile
ballistics", he says.
At the moment, there's only an article in Swedish available.
http://www.sr.se/ekot/index.asp?article=22761
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