[fuzzing] Funny - not really related to fuzzing...

[Ari Takanen]

... but maybe yet another indication that Fuzzing is going
mainstream. I noticed one of our semi-academic fuzzing papers was
accepted to a peer-reviewed journal! The funny thing is that I do not
recall us sending it there. And I do not know any of these guys
(D.V. Chandra Shekar, V.V. Jayarama Krishnaiah, Suresh Babu
Yalavarthi, from various Colleges in India) who claim they have
written it.

A common practice with some so-called academics is to send plagiarized
papers to fake conferences and fake journal publications. The most
common feature of these all is that they take a fee for publishing the
article. And they never reject anything. Good business, especially
thinking about the increasing number of unethical academics out there.

In many real academic institutions you would be kicked out of all
academic positions for life for doing something like this. Maybe it is
a bit similar in the hacking community? I would not know. You just do
not steal ideas from other people, at least without referring to their
work.

Oh, and the article is here:

http://www.jatit.org/volumes/research-papers/Vol4No9/9Vol4No9.pdf

And the original is here:

http://www.codenomicon.com/resources/whitepapers/2008-wireless.shtml

The same guys probably have more similar works published, and soon a
good paying job in the west with all that hard studying... I wonder if
the entire school is fake.

Best regards,

/Ari

Note-1: This is nothing new, just the first time I saw anything
related to fuzzing being stolen by these types of people.

Note-2: If I was an another unethical academic, I would not say
anything about this as a journal reference to our publications also
accounts into these funny academic points.

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