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One potentially misleads readers of the journal, the other introduces security vulnerabilities into the world’s most popular operating system kernel.
by snazz 5y ago
One potentially misleads readers of the journal, the other introduces security vulnerabilities into the world’s most popular operating system kernel.
- AshamedCaptain 5y ago"Misleading readers of a journal" might actually cause more damages to all of humanity (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt) than inserting a security vulnerability (that is likely not even exploitable) in a driver that no one actually enables (which is likely why no one cares about reviewing patches to it, either). Thought to be fair, it is also the case that only the most irrelevant journals are likely to accept the most bogus papers. But in both cases I see no reason not to point it out. The two situations are much more closer than what you think. The only difference I see is in the level of bogusness.