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"...the Impossible Boomerang Attack (IBA) which are especially dangerous as impossible boomerangs are truly impossible while regular boomerangs are possible boomerangs"

wutlol

There's more. Probably just a cheesy way to write a paper you'll retract / rewrite anyway?

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Go all the way to appendix B for the serious part.

It's interesting how, besides the obvious jokes in every other sentence, the paper is otherwise almost plausible.

Possibly someone trying to expose bad conferences and journals by submitting this paper and see if it gets accepted.

Or perhaps simply for a challenge.

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