The man who claims to have written the Bitcoin whitepaper has been accused of committing plagiarism once more, this time in his doctoral thesis.

PaintedFrog, the pseudonymous writer who previously defendant Dr. Craig Wright of plagiarizing his 2008 police force degree dissertation for Northumbria Academy, has posted his analysis of Wright's 2022 PhD thesis from Charles Sturt University (CSU).

The blogger posted purported screenshots of Wright'due south thesis, "The Quantification of Information Systems Risk: A Expect at Quantitative Responses to Information Security Issues," alongside several other publicly available sources.

Cointelegraph contacted Dr. Wright prior to publication of this story, and will update the piece with his response to the allegations if nosotros hear back.

What is plagiarism?

PaintedFrog accused Wright of taking "huge swaths of content and reworded it to avoid automated detection tools. In virtually cases, he simply substituted synonyms every few words".

The divergence betwixt acceptable paraphrasing and outright plagiarism is something of a grey area. Nonetheless, according to CSU'south ain academic misconduct policy, plagiarism can exist defined equally:

"...rephrasing ideas from books, journals, study notes or tapes, the Spider web, the work of other students, or any other source without acknowledging the source of those ideas by footnotes or citations. This could include material copied from a source and acknowledged, but presented as the pupil's own paraphrasing."

The blogger claimed Wright did not properly acknowledge the sources of a number of publications. Co-ordinate to email correspondence with several university professors provided past PaintedFrog, CSU has reportedly begun an investigation into the affair.

Side-past-side comparing

PaintedFrog accused Wright of using content from "Data Mining: Desktop Survival Guide" published by Graham Williams in January 2008, "Ethical Hacking" written past Reto Baumann in 2002, and even an ornithology professor'southward webpage.

Left: PF's screenshots of Wright's 2022 thesis, Right: Cumulative processes related to upshot histories. Cook, Richard & Lawless, Jerald & Lee, Ker-Ai, 2003. Source: Medium

The blogger suggested that Wright had made a few errors, such as an endeavour "to obfuscate the equations by choosing different variable annotation, but confused himself in the process and made a few errors, which are highlighted in cherry-red boxes."

Left: PF's screenshots of Wright's 2022 thesis, Right: Principles of Disharmonize Economics: A Primer for Social Scientists. Source: Medium

"In other cases," the Medium author noted, "Wright copied articulate errors that were already nowadays in the source material and did non right them."

Left: PF's screenshots of Wright's 2022 thesis, Right: Ethical Hacking. Reto Baumann, 2002. Source: Medium

PaintedFrog claims the "extensiveness of the plagiarism" overshadows any possible statement by Wright that "these are only a few mistakes."

Wright is against plagiarism

The Satoshi claimant himself has come down hard on plagiarists and wrote in a 2022 commodity that "plagiarism can be no different to receiving stolen intellectual property."

"The damage done through plagiarism and the charade it entails damages not just those involved, but likewise the entire data security customs when it is one of our own."

Wright is highly protective of his reputation and has launched legal action against numerous figures in the crypto customs that have defendant him of fraud. PaintedFrog said he chose to remain anonymous to avoid potential legal action.