A cleared friend lamented this recently. (But long enough ago my memory is a tad hazy.) I believe they told me that they're allowed to read reports _about_ the material (e.g. a summarizing article) but not the content themselves. They wished there was some uncleared, but 'blessed' source from the government where they could read summaries so they weren't put in uncomfortable positions but at the same time had some idea of what the hell everyone was talking about.
In an academic setting for a Homeland Security degree, this is clearly not as good as reading primary materials. But for the Air Force Institute of Technology, they _should_ have a class that's like 'Breaking Secure Protocols' (say, DNSSEC, TLS, SSH, Tor etc - universities do of course) and they _should_ read summaries of published attacks, and such a summary source would include enough info to augment. -tom -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
