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Since when trying to dox people is called academic "research"?
Since when is it ok to create a forum that is not anonymous and then advertise it as an anonymous forum that is safe for whistleblowers?
So what's next? Get these people fired from their jobs for having unapproved ideas? Also, who decides what is or is not toxic?
Do you or do you not think that it should be acceptable to use language like "d4mn j3ws" in an academic forum?
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Username = hex(sha1(topic_id + ip))[10-14] Notably, no salt used
the topic_id could be considered a salt, no?
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Since when is it ok to create a forum that is not anonymous and then advertise it as an anonymous forum that is safe for whistleblowers?
I don't think the aim of this "research" is helping to fix the security defects of EJMR.
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Since when is it ok to create a forum that is not anonymous and then advertise it as an anonymous forum that is safe for whistleblowers?
I don't think the aim of this "research" is helping to fix the security defects of EJMR.
In doing the research they - random academics, not some nation state, or criminal organisation - were able to find that the posts were not anonymous, and extract the location of posters so it was not hard. They clearly informed the forum owner, because the forum owner fixed the issue (though notably did not tell anyone that their posts were not anonymous).
Now new users of ejmr can hopefully rely on actual anonymity, and existing users can know that in principle their posts could be partially de-anonymized (the IP is the external one, most organizations being described have you behind some kind of NAT so full identification is at best questionable imo).
So what's next? Get these people fired from their jobs for having unapproved ideas? Also, who decides what is or is not toxic?
You make it sound like it's a matter of academic freedom. It is not. Do you or do you not think that it should be acceptable to use language like "d4mn j3ws" in an academic forum?
Of course it's not acceptable. It's not acceptable for any academic to disagree with me period. All those posters need to be rooted out, fired, and blacklisted.
The paper: https://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/files/2023-07/e...
Username = hex(sha1(topic_id + ip))[10-14] Notably, no salt used
I think there's where the anonymity claims might have come from
So what's next? Get these people fired from their jobs for having unapproved ideas? Also, who decides what is or is not toxic?
You make it sound like it's a matter of academic freedom. It is not. Do you or do you not think that it should be acceptable to use language like "d4mn j3ws" in an academic forum?