goatkarma

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by goatkarma 7y ago
Interesting link thanks! I guess the pertinent part is : I did not tell Science how credentials were donated: either voluntarily or not. I only told that I cannot disclose the source of the credentials. I assume that some credentials comin
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by goatkarma 7y ago
I'm not sure if you caught the above comment but I can be certain that professonal services staff (HR, admin etc) who's accounts have been used by Scihub definitely did not give their credentials voluntarily. They have zero intere
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by goatkarma 7y ago
Sorry I didn't respond earlier, think account was rate limited due to being new. Not sure what sort of proof you want? "Gratuitously cruel" is quite an emotive description! The simplest example is the same phished accounts us
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by goatkarma 7y ago
It is definitely a possibility. Our Security team have a quite rigourous follow-up process and that's never been raised but absolutely not out the realms of possibility. However some accounts for users in non academic departments have
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by goatkarma 7y ago
Err I read TFA...Just read the top comments on this HN post to see ease of use is absolutely key to why folk use it. My perspective is from the University side of things so can only speak for that rather than from the perspective of users w
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by goatkarma 7y ago
I think pretty much any university could provide proof that Scihub uses phished credentials to proxy articles for their users. It's no secret in HE. Here's the first Google link. It's far too alarmist but should at least give
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by goatkarma 7y ago
20 years of working in HE IT. Random unaffiliated Scihub users in China contacting our University IT helpdesk after the phished accounts Scihub was using to proxy an article had reached it's EZproxy download limit and the 'you hav
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by goatkarma 7y ago
One thing that is often overlooked is method that Scihub uses to obtain articles, and the impact that method has on the very researchers who use it. Phishing scams are used to obtain the credentials of university accounts which are then use