I'm probably thinking about this more than I should, but I was reading this thread:
https://github.com/QiushiWu/qiushiwu.github.io/issues/1(That is the PHD candidate - right?)
First off, let this be a lesson to the kids out there- don't piss off the people above you unless you are really, really good (ok, I am saying that with a
One big issue that comes to mind, and I don't know enough to even speculate, does this constitute penetration testing without authorization? If so, that would have some consequences, I would think - anybody have a more educated opinion than mine?
The other issue concerns the IRB, when did they get approval and the waiver, and whether that is going to be 'changed', the process or otherwise, in the near future. I already weighed in on that and I am sticking with that opinion.
From that thread, this fellow is gearing up to make an apology (not a clarification) and, as could be anticipated, is getting a lot of heat. Some justifiable, some maybe not so not so much.
I wonder how the presentation goes (if it is not retracted) - a lengthy apology to begin? Concentration on this idea of “immature vulnerability”, which does not seem all that original, but I don't know.
Right now, I think there is a lot of scrambling going on - what do we have to change and how do we do that?....I once had to take a mandatory Jeep Safety Training and Motorcycle Safety Training...as far as I know, I have never been in a Jeep and except for a brief period of time in my youth (EZ-Rider period
) I don't own or use a motorcycle. It took me a while to understand how those mandates came to be and it was quite a lesson in bureaucratic processes.