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<p class="MsoNormal">My apologies if you’ve already seen this.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/news/city-of-london/news/2021/march/police-warn-students-and-universities-of-accessing-an-illegal-website-to-download-published-scientific-papers/">Police warn students and universities of accessing
an illegal website to download published scientific papers | City of London Police</a><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">I am sharing this information as I believe this is of major interest to members of this list.</span><span style="color:black;background:white"> This is a significant move from City of London Police
and indicates some serious concerns.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“<i>Given the threat posed by Sci-Hub to both the university and its students, IT departments are advised to block the website on their network in order to mitigate the security risk</i>”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Max Bruce, Cyber Protect Officer, City of London Police<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">To help your IT departments to address this matter this please share details of the PSI block lists which you can download from theIPregistry.org.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Academia must take this matter seriously.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Debbie Wilton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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