Understanding the nature of each organization involved -- how both motivations and expectations shift as one moves between orgnaizational barriers -- is perhaps the most important, worst reported, least understood part of this story.
If the SEI took money to, essentially, weaponize unpublished research, the issue is not one an IRB would have prevented. DoD contractors aren't bound by scientific codes of conduct. In light of that realization, the suggestion in this blog post is confusing.
(BTW, distancing CMU and the SEI is not meant as a defense of CMU -- close ties between public science and law enforcement/military R&D are as troubling as ever...)
If the SEI took money to, essentially, weaponize unpublished research, the issue is not one an IRB would have prevented. DoD contractors aren't bound by scientific codes of conduct. In light of that realization, the suggestion in this blog post is confusing.
(BTW, distancing CMU and the SEI is not meant as a defense of CMU -- close ties between public science and law enforcement/military R&D are as troubling as ever...)