A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Research [pdf]

Re:A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Rese... by dctoedt on Friday October 30, 2020 @11:58AM (#24943564)

(Trivia:) Looks like they might have used LaTex (vice Microsoft Word) to create the PDF.

EDIT: This is mildly noteworthy because the authors are at Harvard Law, and lawyers and law students typically use Word, not LaTex. The senior author, Harvard Law student Sunoo Park, is also an MIT computer science Ph.D and computer security researcher.

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Re:A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Rese... by KSerra on Friday October 30, 2020 @12:08PM (#24943703)

Author (Kendra Albert) here! We did indeed use LaTeX (more specifically Overleaf) to format the document.

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Re:A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Rese... by lisper on Friday October 30, 2020 @12:28PM (#24943914)

Maybe I'm being extraordinarily dense, but why is that noteworthy here?

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Re:A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Rese... by elliekelly on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:19PM (#24945846)

Most lawyers can barely manage Microsoft Word print to PDF.

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Re:A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Rese... by dctoedt on Friday October 30, 2020 @12:49PM (#24944155)

> Maybe I'm being extraordinarily dense, but why is that noteworthy here?

GGP here: I said it was trivia; please see the edit above.

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Re:A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Rese... by Wistar on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:53PM (#24944970)

The scent of authentic technical chops?

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Re:A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Rese... by lights0123 on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:08PM (#24945726)

Just to let you know, the citation at the end of 26 falls over and causes the entirety of page 27 to be a link to it.

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Re:A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Rese... by saurik on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:48PM (#24946180)

(It took me a while to understand what was being said here: in case it helps anyone else, there is a line break inside of a hyperlink inside of a footnote that is spreading the hyperlink across an entire page of PDF content somehow, so very little is visually wrong--it isn't that page 27 is showing nothing but a link, which is how I initially interpreted this issue report--but the behavior is very wrong: all of the text on page 27 acts as the link.)

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Re:A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Rese... by KSerra on Friday October 30, 2020 @04:17PM (#24946456)

Thank you! We'll fix that.

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Re:A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Rese... by WrtCdEvrydy on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:13PM (#24945769)

Is there a chance you'd be willing to release the template eventually?

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