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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by killjoywashere on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @05:27PM (#26895654)
Not that I approve of the methods, but why would an IRB be involved in a computer security study? IRBs are for human subjects research. If we have to run everything that looks like any kind of research through IRBs, the Western gambit on technical advantage is going to run into some very hard times.
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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by altouring on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @07:12PM (#26896555)
The subjects were the kernel team. They should have had consent to be part of this study. It's like red team testing, someone somewhere has to know about it and consent to it.
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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by neatze on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @10:35PM (#26898121)
How IEEE accepted this paper is a mystery, from twitter feeds, seems like at least one complaint was filled with IEEE, paper still was accepted.
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