{"id":4154,"date":"2019-04-03T17:27:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T22:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2019-09-24T21:20:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T02:20:45","slug":"beware-of-fake-focs-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=4154","title":{"rendered":"Beware of fake FOCS site!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As most of you in theoretical computer science will know, the submission deadline for the <a href=\"http:\/\/focs2019.cs.jhu.edu\/\">2019 FOCS conference<\/a> is <strong>this Friday, April 5<\/strong>.  The FOCS&#8217;2019 program committee chair, my UT Austin colleague David Zuckerman, has asked me to warn everyone that a fake submission site was set up at aconf.org&#8212;apparently as a phishing scam&#8212;and is one of the first results to come up when you google &#8220;FOCS 2019.&#8221;  <strong>Do not submit there!<\/strong>  The true URL is <a href=\"http:\/\/focs2019.cs.jhu.edu\/\">focs2019.cs.jhu.edu<\/a>; accept no substitutes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, I&#8217;ve been thrashing for several weeks&#8212;just barely escaping spaghettification at the <a href=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=388\">Email Event Horizon<\/a>&#8212;but I hope to be back shortly with your regularly scheduled programming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you in theoretical computer science will know, the submission deadline for the 2019 FOCS conference is this Friday, April 5. The FOCS&#8217;2019 program committee chair, my UT Austin colleague David Zuckerman, has asked me to warn everyone that a fake submission site was set up at aconf.org&#8212;apparently as a phishing scam&#8212;and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-complexity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4155,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions\/4155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}