[tor-relays] Tor abuse complaints (per MBit/s)

[Cristian Consonni]

2016-09-29 14:53 GMT+02:00 mick <mbm at rlogin.net>:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 22:05:33 -0700
> Sadia Afroz <sadia at icsi.berkeley.edu> allegedly wrote:
>
>> We did not publish the report anywhere.
>> I put it up on my site just for the ease of sharing it in the mailing
>> list.
>
> Sadia
>
> With respect, those two statements are mutually contradictory. Placing
> the report on-line /anywhere/ constitutes publication. And since the
> report is widely reachable it will by now have been cached by search
> engines.

mick,

You are correct in a sense. On the another hand in academia until a
work is published in a peer-reviewed conference or journal it does not
really count (you make like this or not, but this is another issue)
and/or it would be evident that it is a work in progress.

Moritz mentioned a possible problem with the press misinterpreting the
results of this report: I would expect that a _bona fide_ journalist
that is able to find such a report on the website of a research would
also know that these are preliminary results. I would also expect such
a journalist to reach out to the authors for comments. If not, let's
say that against ignorance or malice you can not do much (even with a
completed work) and I would not blame the authors for the deficiencies
of others.

That said, I do not see any other way to make this work reachable so
that the authors can talk about their  preliminary results with as
many people as possible - and the "tor community" at large. The
alternative would be to select a closed group of people with whom to
share the report.

Being a fan of "release early, release often" I prefer the current alternative.

Cristian