And this is why ethics needs to be taught at ALL level in Computer Science and Computer Engineering departments. https://twitter.com/gregkh/status/1384785747874656257
This is my alma mater. They messed up big time.
This was wasting people's time for research. People who didn't consent to be researched.
This wasn't scraping or mining public data. This was interrupting good will of a group.
This was wasting people's time for research. People who didn't consent to be researched.
This wasn't scraping or mining public data. This was interrupting good will of a group.
And now all http://umn.edu email addresses are banned from submitting patches until further review.
They fucked up big time.
They fucked up big time.
Also IRB, you might want to rethink your classification. https://twitter.com/p_r/status/1384846670362550272?s=20
Paper if you want to read.
They acknowledge open source is mostly volunteer and understaffed so they new they were experimenting with overworked people. See page 9 https://github.com/QiushiWu/QiushiWu.github.io/blob/main/papers/OpenSourceInsecurity.pdf
They acknowledge open source is mostly volunteer and understaffed so they new they were experimenting with overworked people. See page 9 https://github.com/QiushiWu/QiushiWu.github.io/blob/main/papers/OpenSourceInsecurity.pdf