Going Back to College, to Trade Secrets Graduate Degree

摘要

In the last iPaint, we discussed the egregious and arguably greatest trade secret heist in history, the stealing of Rosalind Franklin's x-ray diffraction data on the DNA double helix structure - where researchers at one university ripped off a researcher at another university, aided in the heist by a colleague of the victim. It did not speak well of university ethics and certainly brought into question university data protection procedures. Still, it's hard to protect against an inside job, one with determined thieves and a Nobel hanging in the balance. Man! I wish I could have represented Dr. Franklin. But, that was long ago (I would love to say "before I was born," but sadly that would be stretching the truth a bit).