Alexandra Elbakyan
Activist
1988-11-06
Alexandra Elbakyan is a Kazakhstani programmer and creator of Sci-Hub, known for advocacy around open access to scientific literature.
Quotes by Alexandra Elbakyan
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There is the possibility to be suddenly arrested for hacking.
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I think that whether I can be a Russian spy is being investigated by U.S. government since they learned about Sci-Hub, because that is very logical: a Russian project, that uses university accounts to access some information, of course that is suspicious. But in fact Sci-Hub has always been my personal enterprise.
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I know there are some reasons to suspect me: after all, I have education in computer security and was a hobby hacker in teenage years. But hacking is not my occupation, and I do not have any job within any intelligence, either Russian or some another.
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I like their slogan 'making uncommon knowledge common' very much, but as far as I can tell Elsevier has not mastered this job well. Sci-Hub is helping them to fulfill their mission.
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I do know about stories where hackers that left Russia or Ukraine for Europe or the United States were unexpectedly arrested.
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For me, Sci-Hub has a value by itself, as a website where users can access knowledge. There are many websites where you can see pictures, share tweets, download music, read ebooks. And Sci-Hub is a website where you can read research articles.
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