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October 31, 2006
The List of Dubious Research - 1
I'm starting a list with projects that have questionable ethics, which I decided to pompously call "The List of Dubious Research". Feel free to comment if you think these are kosher or if they 3v1l.
We will start with:
http://cs.ucsb.edu/~rsg/projects/smartphones/index.html
"Mobile phone viruses and worms are becoming more common and sophisticated. To better understand the threat posed by these class of malware, we developed a proof-of-concept mobile phone worm for the Symbian OS. Through the development of this proof-of-concept worm we gathered information about what is needed to develop a mobile phone worm, how mobile phone worms spread, and how targets are infected.
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This research was supported by the Army Research Office, under agreement DAAD19-01-1-0484, and by the National Science Foundation, under grants CCR-0238492 and CCR-0524853."
Thanks to Roel for pointing this out to me.
Posted by Costin Raiu at October 31, 2006 7:02 PM