Security Research Ethics Review

What’s the subject, Kenneth?

Dave Dittrich
Level Up Coding
Published in
10 min readApr 22, 2021

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The band R.E.M. released a song on their 1994 album Monster inspired by an odd attack one night by two well-dressed individuals who physically assaulted TV news anchor Dan Rather on his way home while they demanded he answer a question:

“Kenneth, what is the frequency?

Luckily, Rather was not seriously harmed in the attack.

The question made absolutely no sense.

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