The FBI investigating hacking of Covid research by “PRC-affiliated cyber actors”

Re:The FBI investigating hacking of Covid research by “PRC-a... by cscurmudgeon on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @08:59PM (#23318298)

So two questions (not to you, but the general audience):

1. Are you ok if some entity steals your research and publishes it under their name in a venue under their name before you publish it?

2. Are you okay if the entity stealing the research is not similarly liberal with their own research on the same subject?

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Re:The FBI investigating hacking of Covid research by “PRC-a... by masnao on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @10:37PM (#23318827)

if the research was published published ongoing, like open source software, it would not be aproblem.

the problem only exists because people want to 1) hold data hostage for money and power 2) only publish success.

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Re:The FBI investigating hacking of Covid research by “PRC-a... by cscurmudgeon on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:08PM (#23318993)

> if the research was published published ongoing

Are you aware that there are protocols in medical research against this?

Publishing research in an ongoing basis will taint the results (placebo effects etc).

There are blackout periods etc. just to make sure that the analysis is valid and not tainted.

Also a lot of research has lag time. Experiments can take a lot of time.

There is also a hidden assumption China is hacking for the greater good.

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Re:The FBI investigating hacking of Covid research by “PRC-a... by masnao on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:38AM (#23389304)

you're talking about human medical trials. that's a very low percentage of research

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Re:The FBI investigating hacking of Covid research by “PRC-a... by defen on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:39PM (#23319141)

Even if software is open source, you can't steal it and claim you wrote it yourself.

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