Re: Sriharsha Karamchati Kicked Out of Nmap GSoC for Cheating

[Jacek Wielemborek <d33tah () gmail com>]

02.07.2014 05:08, Fyodor:
> Hi folks.  I'm sorry to report that we had to remove Sriharsha Karamchati
> from the Nmap GSoC program after he was caught cheating :(.  It turns out
> that most of his coding samples were blatantly plagiarized from others and
> he apparently can't program at more than a very elementary level.
>  Sriharsha even convinced a real IPv6 researcher to send him
> pre-publication research, which Sriharsha then submitted to us as his own
> work after removing the true author's name from every single slide.  The
> saddest part is that we had to reject many worthy, talented and honest
> applicants who could have done great things with the position.
>
> The only good news is that, of the 68 students we've mentored during our
> decade in the GSoC program, Sriharsha is the first one we had to remove for
> cheating.  Let's hope he is also the last!
>
> Cheers,
> Fyodor
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That sucks! I have to admit that I had strange feelings about his
copying of many parts of mine and sophron's GSoC proposal, but we both
decided that it's probably within "fair use".

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