Re: Sriharsha Karamchati Kicked Out of Nmap GSoC for Cheating

["Barry Allard" <barry.allard () gmail com>]

PS not that it would stop plagiarism, but maybe ask some FOSS ethics questions.—
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On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Barry Allard <barry.allard () gmail com>
wrote:

> Maybe require a tech phone screen for all candidates and have a short waiting list should a selected candidate/s drop 
> for any reason.  Otherwise, it may make the sponsors / sponsors' org look bad.
> Barry
> —
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> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Ron Bowes <ron () skullsecurity net> wrote:
> > Robin - I believe the 'cheating' was on the application itself, not to
> > Nmap code. When it came to actually writing code, I don't believe he
> > contributed much if anything.
> > Ron
> > On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Robin Wood <robin@digi.ninja> wrote:
> > > I've not followed what he submitted but is there any way to use any of it
> > > if the original authors are OK with it?
> > >
> > > May as well salvage what we can.
> > >
> > > Robin
> > > On 2 Jul 2014 04:10, "Fyodor" <fyodor () nmap org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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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