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After cybersecurity lab wouldn’t use AV software, US accuses Georgia Tech of fraud
Researchers allegedly found security protocols "burdensome."
Dr. Emmanouil "Manos" Antonakakis runs a Georgia Tech cybersecurity lab and has attracted millions of dollars in the last few years from the US government for Department of Defense research projects like "Rhamnousia: Attributing Cyber Actors Through Tensor Decomposition and Novel Data Acquisition." Georgia Tech admins asked him to comply with the requirement, but according to an internal 2019 email, Antonakakis "wasn't receptive to such a suggestion." According to the government, "Within a few days of the invoicing for his contracts being suspended, Dr. Antonakakis relented on his years-long opposition to the installation of antivirus software in the Astrolavos Lab.
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