I mean, there’s all kinds of terrible unethical research.
What makes you think this isn’t research?
What makes you think this isn’t research?
Not justifying what they did but this apparently is still research.
I pulled this from the website of Oakland 2021
Since 1980 in Oakland, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for computer security research, presenting the latest developments and bringing together researchers and practitioners. We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of security or privacy. Papers may present advances in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, verification, or empirical evaluation and measurement of secure systems.
I was pointing out that this is like defining whether or not something is “art” not based upon the work itself, but instead based solely upon whether somebody bought it.
Incidentally, my recipe for apple pie was printed in a newspaper, and so therefore my recipe is “news”.