The 28th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony (2018)
イグノーベル賞の授賞理由
MEDICAL EDUCATION PRIZE [JAPAN] — Akira Horiuchi, for the medical report “Colonoscopy in the Sitting Position: Lessons Learned From Self-Colonoscopy.”
REFERENCE: “Colonoscopy in the Sitting Position: Lessons Learned From Self-Colonoscopy by Using a Small-Caliber, Variable-Stiffness Colonoscope,” Akira Horiuchi and Yoshiko Nakayama, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, vol. 63, No. 1, 2006, pp. 119-20.（improbable.com）
イグノーベル賞とは
イグノーベル賞（Ig Nobel Prize）は、「人々を笑わせ、そして考えさせてくれる研究」に対して与えられるもので、1991年に創設されました。通常のノーベル賞とは異なり、内容がどれだけ面白いかも重要視されます。
How to Write a Research Statement (Stony Brook University 2012/09/21 に公開 YOUTUBE Michael Hadjiargyrou How to Write a Research Statement April 11, 2012)
Their most recent find: a 41-gigabyte file that contains a staggering 1.4 billion username and password combinations.
The usernames and passwords have been collected from a number of different sources. 4iQ’s screenshot shows dumps from Netflix, Last.FM, LinkedIn, MySpace, dating site Zoosk, adult website YouPorn, as well as popular games like Minecraft and Runescape. (Dec 11, 2017, 02:45pm
File With 1.4 Billion Hacked And Leaked Passwords Found On The Dark Web. Lee Mathews)
While scanning the deep and dark web for stolen, leaked or lost data, 4iQ discovered a single file with a database of 1.4 billion clear text credentials — the largest aggregate database found in the dark web to date.
The 41GB dump was found on 5th December 2017 in an underground community forum. The database was recently updated with the last set of data inserted on 11/29/2017. The total amount of credentials (usernames/clear text password pairs) is 1,400,553,869.
We’ve found that although the majority of these breaches are known within the Breach and Hacker community, 14% of exposed username/passwords pairs had not previously been decrypted by the community and are now available in clear text. (Julio Casal Dec 9, 2017 medium.com 1.4 Billion Clear Text Credentials Discovered in a Single Database)
One list, known as the “Anti Public Combo List“, contains 457,962,538 distinct email addresses, and although HIBP creator Troy Hunt, who first reported the discovery of the lists last Friday, has so far been unable to trace the source of the data, he believes it comes from multiple breaches rather than a single event. (Breach site finds 1 billion accounts in hacked datasets. Dale Walker. 9 May, 2017)
On Friday, Twitter user Chris Vickery teased world plus dog that he was going public on Monday with news of a massive data breach of 1.37 billion records. And that turned out to be as many as 1.37 billion contact details amassed by River City Media (RCM) – an internet marketing biz apparently based in Jackson, Wyoming, that claims to emit up to a billion emails a day.
The 200GB table includes real names, email addresses, IP addresses, and “often” physical addresses, it is claimed. Vickery said he “stumbled upon a suspicious, yet publicly exposed, collection of files,” and discovered the database and documents related to RCM. Among the millions and millions of contact details were chat logs and files exposing the sprawling RCM empire. It turns out the spamming, er, marketing biz has many tentacles and affiliates, mostly acting as web service providers and advertising operations. (That big scary 1.4bn leak was 100s of millions of email, postal addresses. Spammers, shockingly, hoard contact details on millions of netizens By John Leyden 7 Mar 2017 at 03:15 The Register)
I get a lot of requests from people for data from Have I been pwned (HIBP) that they can analyse. Now obviously, there are a bunch of people up to no good requesting the data but equally, there are many others who just want to run statistics. Regardless, the answer has always been “no”, I’m not going to redistribute data to you. In fact, the requests were happening so frequently that I even wrote the blog post No, I cannot share data breaches with you.
However, as part of HIBP’s 3rd birthday celebrations, I am going to share data with you, quite a lot of it. In fact, I’m opening up almost all the data in HIBP with a few very important caveats: (Here’s 1.4 billion records from Have I been pwned for you to analyse. 06 DECEMBER 2016 troyhunt.com
A Russian group has hacked 1.2 billion usernames and passwords belonging to more than 500 million email addresses, according to Hold Security – a US firm specialising in discovering breaches. Hold Security described the hack as the “largest data breach known to date”. It claimed the stolen information came from more than 420,000 websites, including “many leaders in virtually all industries across the world”. (Russia gang hacks 1.2 billion usernames and passwords (BBC 6 August 2014)
They took the personal and financial details of customers who made, or changed, bookings on ba.com or its app during that time. Names, email addresses and credit card information were stolen – including card numbers, expiration dates and the three digit CVC code required to authorise payments. Around 380,000 transactions were affected. (The British Airways hack is impressively bad. WIRED By MATT BURGESS Friday 7 September 2018)
地元メディアの北海道テレビ放送（HTB）の失態が非難を浴びている。HTBはテレビ朝日系列の地方局だが、地震報道にあたっていたスタッフ2名が6日に札幌市清田区で取材中、誤って液状化した泥に足を取られ身動きが取れなくなり、消防に救助される事態になったという。 産経新聞9月11日付記事によると、消防に救助されたのはHTBの女子アナウンサーと男性記者で、泥にはまったのは正午前、助け出されたのは17時半ごろだったという。(テレ朝系列局女子アナ、北海道地震取材で泥にはまり「6時間も消防を独占」で批判殺到 2018.09.11 Business Journal)
ビオール氏は、「ハゲタカ（悪徳）オープンアクセス出版」に対抗する活動で有名です。これは同氏が2010年に考え出した造語です。同年、彼は最初の悪徳学術誌リストを出版しました。そこに含まれていたのは20誌未満でしたが、その後このリストは増え続け、今では包括的な「ビオールのハゲタカ出版社リスト」（Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers）として知られています。（「『ハゲタカ出版社』は、あらゆる手を使ってまともな出版社のふりをします」Editage Insights 2015年7月24日 ）
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International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology（IJACT）というコンピュータ科学分野のオープンアクセス（OA）雑誌が、“Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List”と題し、本文にも同じ内容が繰り返されているだけの論文を受理したことが、米コロラド大学デンバー校図書館のJeffrey Beall氏のブログで報じられています。（「そのメーリングリストから私を外せ」と繰り返し書かれているだけの論文が受理される Current Awareness Portal 2014年11月25日）
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MDPIはハゲタカか？
どの雑誌がハゲタカジャーナルでどの雑誌はそうではないのかがわかればいいのですが、時としてどっちか悩むジャーナルも存在します。みんなを悩ませているのがMDPI社の雑誌。商売上手で取り入るのが上手いので、いつの間にか認知されてしまっています。Web of ScienceやPubmedにも収載されており（一部とはいえ）、インパクトファクターもそこそこある雑誌もあるので、もはやハゲタカじゃね？などとは言えなくなっています。しかし、Beallさんのハゲタカジャーナルリストには過去には載っていたようです。MDPIの激しい抗議の結果リストから除外されたという経緯があります。
読書が趣味の子ども6,000とその知能の相関関係を調べた「Reading for pleasure puts children ahead in the classroom（快楽としての読者は子どもたちを教室で際立たせる）」という研究では、明らかに読書好きの子どものほうが学校の成績が優位で、とくに国語と算数においてその差が顕著に。読書量が多く、定期的に図書館へ行き、新聞も読む子どもたちの学力向上は、大卒の親がいることによる学力向上より、4倍も大きかったのです。（「本を読むと賢くなる」って、本当なの？ 2017年6月6日 6時6分 TABI LABO）
