Stop Shoddy Academic “Research”_TAOSECURITY:50EB7AF6FFB9CB9364DEBD517640E864

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    "description": "When someone cites one of my works, I get a notice from Research Gate. Today I got one, from an article from the \"IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.\" It cited my first book, which is 21 years old.\n\n \n\n![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbOUrIE_yg_2N89bEEprrcZ60kyU06-4YMJ7lxjn-7MM_VVIZJXU8COJTht4kU5Q9m9g77fCADOeerld42Vm7fWbZw2D9jQ4bplfWieO_Wb-o6c56SP2ouH0k5kApKluoopaCvCdVxukph2W5_a367v375oXCqeszM-jGUM3OX8stnGNh7pElH/w640-h640/SquareCap-20251002039%20rg.png)\n\n  \n \n\nThe PDF was available. \n\n \n\n![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0TDATudCT5pUcOldXvnMKRLSbfJPCeaXApbAhW3RDDWPfV_UjeaIKcExy0S8qXWT1XdjtwtHuwUPB9xNYY3oDlWeFdnbJ_9O7j4Wd3tFUhw6TfMyB5xDhUQ8m8X9tZ9GMG15ebOk5XgmUha1GdVIAjjwvJL2E6SDciY02hmqT0kVztj42Lxh3/w640-h640/SquareCap-20251002036%20cover.png)\n\n  \nI noticed the article referenced Prelude, a project I talked about in my first book. \n\n \n\n![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIjLgZ64N3EvpifTeuQTLsKlkbJn_NnUyspJdqjEocGdoJf5q5le9LUERB2I6vNLh3R-F1o75eqPm9jOpkqihMkaoZ0azcKmZZRqC6j7XaocGp1tOFkkg8Jvxa1KdhctN8zs0b99s_1bLPdxuOKrDx0dw5aOhGpJD0A4aRpn3xUQT-OFCuppwW/w640-h640/SquareCap-20251002034%20prelude.png)\n\n  \n \n\n \n\nThis project has been dead for YEARS. If you visit the link for Prelude in the paper, supposedly visited for research in Feb 2025, it redirects to a gambling site. \n\n \n\n![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWGGkucrHXRwz89-ZjzWdwcLuMC-2h45ydPTUx7_UOFeIFdFVkG2zoMTC2M4Cjj3Ohhs56OHKX_KN4NQ5zNh0FJe7D7NZfO9zGSsxm8wYAWIG3G2qulwraQSuLUiZcVCzsCrL7-mnvx57bDZNr5nOH7-DnzALRsvTtDeUTFHL9Ngad41sjPTeK/w640-h640/SquareCap-20251002037%20link.png)\n\n  \nIf you go to the original Prelude IDS site, it's a disguised gambling site.\n\n \n\n![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN4Zqd1zt4wSVA2ChMNH8_Dt6vP2vQBAXjltG2ECMjYr1J1G-Bp4vEcg0nY2YhP6Mj9fjHbKI9gi0Ups8g86phDWPZJd-DQwRlvcYkHRJIe2VFBj2OszhzSs2HlQ9Wb6_nGOApUSOqhiskUpUKC5Al2dAlDpb-fGufL7NZLHSs-CfDLIBD9V8E/w640-h640/SquareCap-20251002035%20prelude%20web%20site.png)\n\n  \n \n\nI checked with Archive.org and the site was not serving useful content in the timeframe the researchers claimed.\n\n \n\n![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHBc1IUTuM9uShCdTZ14ze9xZZ1Nhs_AjjLd4-gABTqL2A6a-IR-hx3__AeqPngxL2JcXmI82tYCVI9t92IR9uG06j-LmDwgKVq9BVnWnPyBOwVFvMgN1PJTD9LAGe7itiBIGKKXmJRXtW95kRPr1dftUjcz54RX4873o7c2B3cZQmKKhX4jbr/w640-h640/SquareCap-20251002038%20archive.png)\n\n  \nI don't understand how this happens. Stop shoddy academic \"research.\"\n\nCopyright 2003-2020 Richard Bejtlich and TaoSecurity (taosecurity.blogspot.com and www.taosecurity.com)",
    "published": "2025-10-02T15:19:00",
    "modified": "2025-10-02T15:19:32",
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