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

[Gadi Evron]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Ari Takanen wrote:
> ... 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

Hey, how dare you steal from these guys?!?!!? :)


> 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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