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Re:Graduate Students Analyze, Crack, and Remove Under-Desk S... by frumiousirc on Sunday December 04, 2022 @08:29AM (#33853532)
> Overall this data collection was being done in a privacy respecting way

and yet, I read

> Luzzi had claimed the devices were secure and the data encrypted, but Privacy Institute students learned they were relatively insecure and unencrypted

...

> Which is illegal since it isn't their property.

and yet, I read

> deployed without IRB approval even though human subjects were at the center of the so-called study

For me, this is was perhaps the most important message,

> many members of the computer science department were also in a union, and thus networked together for a quick mass response.

Re:Graduate Students Analyze, Crack, and Remove Under-Desk S... by SideQuark on Sunday December 04, 2022 @10:26AM (#33854478)
>> Which is illegal since it isn't their property.

> and yet, I read

>> deployed without IRB approval even though human subjects were at the center of the so-called study

That still does not make tampering with them legal. The correct answer is to get the proper people to deal with any IRB issues.