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February 26, 2008
SSRN Hacked?
posted by Gary Rosin
Over at The Conglomerate blog, David Zaring asks "Has SSRN Been Hacked?" SSRN authors are beginning to report unauthorized alterations of SSRN abstract pages to "tag" "EFMA 2003 Helsinki Meetings." An SSRN tag "tagged" shows that the paper was presented at a conference, or notes publication info (making the paper now an "accepted" paper). I checked my own SSRN author's page. Each of my papers that did not already have another tag now shows the "EFMA 2003 Helsinki Meetings" tag. I just hope that SSRN also checks the papers themselves to be sure that those haven't been changed, as well! I bet that your similarly-situated SSRN papers have also been so tagged. It must have been a virtual conference, for so many of us to have presented! Maybe that is why I don't remember what the weather was like during the meetings!
Update: At some point between about 7:30 to 9:30 pm. Central on Tuesday, Feb. 26, SSRN de-Helsinki'd my papers. Still no word from SSRN as to what happened, or as to whether it has been fixed. Gary
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Ok, I'll bite: What are (or was or was supposed to have been) the EFMA 2003 Helsinki Meetings?
Posted by: Stuart Levine | Mar 30, 2008 5:26:50 PM
Presumably, the European Financial Managment Association, which held its 2003 Annual Meeting in Helsinki
Posted by: Gary Rosin | Mar 30, 2008 7:31:31 PM
