Ivan Oransky asks whether the fallout from last week's EurekAlert hack will include a rethinking of the embargo system for distributing news from science journals: "We’ve already seen plenty of vulnerabilities in journals’ embargo (and related Ingelfinger Rule) practices, and glimpses of what a more persistent embargo-free world would look like, thanks to preprints." Read the comments for more debate. Also, the writer who discovered the hack.
September 19, 2016