It seems the networking research community has already formed an ethics review board: <https://www.ethicalresearch.org/efp/netsec/>. 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? Aaron > On Oct 8, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Aaron Johnson <aaron.m.john...@nrl.navy.mil> > wrote: > >> 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 the final word. There could very well be benefits that weren’t > properly appreciated. However, observing that your plans are on the list will > hopefully help you realize that your plans are potentially dangerous to > users, that they are likely to be opposed by key members of the Tor community > without effort to change minds beforehand, and that Tor network operators may > already be blacklisting relays that are observed participating in such > activity. I think that will be a very helpful kind of communication between > Tor and researchers that doesn’t exist today. > > Best, > Aaron _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
