It's Fundamental Research!

Been an extremely busy time as we continue to work on numerous projects behind the scenes. The government is going to try to maintain exemption 4 on the attribution analysis, but this weekend I noticed a court filing in the DOJ v. Georgia Tech lawsuit in which Georgia Tech argued that everything connected to the Astrolavos lab is “fundamental research” and therefore no cybersecurity was needed:

Fundamental research, Georgia Tech notes, is characterized by a type of research ordinarily released in the normal course of business and not subject to restrictions for proprietary/national security reasons.

Argus Leader says that if the entity typically releases the information in the normal course of business, there is no exemption 4 to claim.

Either Georgia Tech just lost the case vs. the DOJ, or, the attribution analysis must be released without any exemption claims.

Waiting to hear back from the DOJ.