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I think it is important to note that this is a final paper for a course at MIT. I would not hold it to the same quality standards as novel, peer-reviewed resear
by sjroot 9y ago
I think it is important to note that this is a final paper for a course at MIT. I would not hold it to the same quality standards as novel, peer-reviewed research.
- lucb1e 9y agoThere are LaTeX errors, jokes... but of course the contents is what counts, and I don't see anything noteworthy there either. It's a good writeup of what is quite well known (if you're into this kinda thing anyway) but it's not research. I wonder whether they passed the course.
- LolWolf 9y agoIt’s a final paper, not a scientific publication nor necessarily original research.
- bowmessage 9y agoThat's unnecessarily harsh.
- curiousgal 9y agoWelcome to HN?
- Proof 9y agoHe is right though in the end.
- sjroot 9y agoIt appears to be an introductory computer and network security course for undergraduates. With that in mind, it seems like they did a good enough job, though I agree that the jokes are distracting. I was only curious as to why this was submitted to HN.
- robobro 9y ago``Lainon" is a term for a user of Lainchan, a 4chan-alike for programmers. It could be that someone in that community wrote that paper or found it interesting.