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danielweber on July 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway

By "deal with this" I meant "deal with the fact that researchers have giant blind spots about the ethical impacts of their research."

I don't expect Joe Random to know to contact these guys' IRB, when they likely don't have one at all.

kbenson on July 22, 2015 [–]

Ah, fair enough. I interpreted it as you saying people should have contacted the IRB, not the police, regarding this breach of ethics in research.

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