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An IEEE statement on the UMN paper

Saturday May 8, 2021. 12:31 AM , from LWN.net
The IEEE, whose Symposium on Security and Privacy conference had accepted
the 'hypocrite commits' paper for publication, has posted
a statement [PDF] on the episode.

The paper was reviewed by
four reviewers in the Fall S&P 2021 review cycle and received a very
positive overall rating (2 Accept and 2 Weak Accept scores, putting it in
the top 5% of submitted papers). The reviewers noted that the fact that a
malicious actor can attempt to intentionally add a vulnerability to an open
source project is not new, but also acknowledged that the authors provide
several new insights by describing why this might be easier than expected,
and why it might be difficult for maintainers to detect the problem. One of
the PC members briefly mentioned a possible ethical concern in their
review, but that comment was not significantly discussed any further at the
time; we acknowledge that we missed it.

The statement concludes with some actions to be taken by IEEE to ensure
that ethically questionable papers are not accepted again.
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