Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer science research

Re:Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer scienc... by ehsankia on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @09:49PM (#27298439)

Is it possible to upload to arXiv but have it as private, but have the upload date reserved. Then if something like this happens, you can turn it to public and show that yours was uploaded first. Obviously arXiv itself would need to be a trusted middleman and guarantee that the system isn't being cheated.

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Re:Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer scienc... by pithon on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @09:53PM (#27298470)

Or upload an encrypted version of the file or just a hash of the figure ahead of time? Then release the descrypt key later or when the figure is published, you can point to the hash which was uploaded publicly a long time ago?

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Re:Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer scienc... by sebmellen on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:33PM (#27298694)

This is exactly what we built at https://assembl.net with blockchain timestamping (and it really worked/works)!!! We had many researchers using it but sadly failed to commercialize.

We called it Assembl Chronos. It’s now available here at https://provenance.cerebrum.com. Please give it a try, I’d love to hear your thoughts :)

(More info: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/assembl-chronos-a-b...)

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Re:Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer scienc... by sillysaurusx on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:22PM (#27298632)

This would be the ultimate proof, but it would also require the system of justice to care enough to accept the proof. It sounds like they just don't care.

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Re:Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer scienc... by ehsankia on Friday May 28, 2021 @04:37PM (#27320186)

I don't think the system of justice would ever go after that random Chinese scientist, but it may be able to take down the fake arXiv entry, as well as help confirm to journals than your idea came first.

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Re:Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer scienc... by wait_a_minute on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:31PM (#27298682)

So make them care - tell your representatives, vote, etc. let’s make noise about it and it will happen.

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