Re: [tor-dev] ResearchEthics

> On 20 Oct 2015, at 01:30, Aaron Johnson wrote: > > It seems the networking research community has already formed an ethics > review board: . Nick Feamster > and Philipp Winter are on the board. > > Maybe Tor can recommend this for researchers tha

Re: [tor-dev] ResearchEthics

It seems the networking research community has already formed an ethics review board: . Nick Feamster and Philipp Winter are on the board. Maybe Tor can recommend this for researchers that wish to use Tor instead of forming its own review group? Aar

Re: [tor-dev] ResearchEthics

> The idea of that list is to provide specific activities for which the costs > are judged not to outweigh the benefits. Sorry, that should have been "for which the costs are judged *to* outweigh the benefits”. Also, I should have mentioned that even being on that list wouldn't necessarily be

Re: [tor-dev] ResearchEthics

> On 9 Oct 2015, at 01:21, Aaron Johnson wrote: > > Hello Rishab, > >> I've been meaning to respond to this for a while. > > Thanks for your thoughts. > >> For what it's worth, I completely disagree that outright "banning" of >> certain data collection is the right answer here. There should

Re: [tor-dev] ResearchEthics

Hello Rishab, > I've been meaning to respond to this for a while. Thanks for your thoughts. > For what it's worth, I completely disagree that outright "banning" of certain > data collection is the right answer here. There should be a standard "let's > weigh the risks vs. the benefits and make

Re: [tor-dev] ResearchEthics

Forgive the lack of inlining. I've been meaning to respond to this for a while. For what it's worth, I completely disagree that outright "banning" of certain data collection is the right answer here. There should be a standard "let's weigh the risks vs. the benefits and make a decision" for any/al

Re: [tor-dev] ResearchEthics

> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ResearchEthics > > Any number of problems and obstacles to legitimate > research areas exist with this… I would be interested in any others that you have other than the one you bring up below. > " > It is not acceptable to run an HSDir, harves

[tor-dev] ResearchEthics

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ResearchEthics Any number of problems and obstacles to legitimate research areas exist with this... " Examples of unacceptable research activity It is not acceptable to run an HSDir, harvest onion addresses, and do a Web crawl of those onion serv