Open Source in the Age of COVID-19
3 min readJul 31, 2020
Several days ago, there were a number of new articles covering the attempted hack of American and British pharmaceutical firms by Russian and Chinese officials. Their aim was to steal the intellectual property of firms working on vaccines for the novel coronavirus, aka COVID-19. Let’s leave aside the fact that Western spies are meanwhile hacking into foreign networks and collecting their own data and intellectual property. For…