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What journal is going to accept a study like this if they haven't obtained proper consent?



IEEE, see the publications list at https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/

>>>On the Feasibility of Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software via Hypocrite Commits Qiushi Wu, and Kangjie Lu. To appear in Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland'21). Virtual conference, May 2021.


May 2021 -- I guess some IEEE member can complain loudly to take it down.


My guess is: a journal that does not focus on studies of human behavior and whose editors are a) not aware of the ethical problems or b) happy to ignore ethics concerns if the publication is prone to receive much attention (which it is).


The IEEE apparently. It is a clear breach of ethics but apparently they don't care


Sadly, that only consolidates my view of that organization.


That might be an interesting topic for research LoL




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