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"several vulnerabilities have already been demonstrated" Nothing in this paper is new, except a few tweaks here and there. This is worrisome. More and more ac
by ccnafr 8y ago
"several vulnerabilities have already been demonstrated"
Nothing in this paper is new, except a few tweaks here and there.
This is worrisome. More and more academic scientific research is the author taking previous research, adding a spin to it, and claiming it's a new attack.
- khawkins 8y ago"More and more academic scientific research is the author taking previous research, adding a spin to it, and claiming it's...new" This describes the vast majority of academic publications both today and a few decades ago. It might not be worthy of spotlight, but there is certainly a place for it in academia.
- busterarm 8y agoThis describes probably half of the research or talks I've seen presented from the infosec industry. Go to infosec meetups like Empire Hacking (the Trail of Bits meetup) and this will be almost every talk without exception. It's an industry that runs on social capital and people have to do anything to get their name out there. Fortunately there is still good work being done.
- stcredzero 8y agoMore and more academic scientific research is the author taking previous research, adding a spin to it, and claiming it's a new attack. This is nothing new. There was a period of time when it seemed like all CompSci papers had to do with some variation on hashing. There was a period of time at OOPSLA where it seemed like some whopping big fraction of papers was just a Java port of something that had been done in Smalltalk several years before. "Publish or perish," is just academia's version of YouTubers posting 3 videos a week.