Re: Sriharsha Karamchati Kicked Out of Nmap GSoC for Cheating

[Robin Wood <robin@digi.ninja>]

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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