Quit the IEEE

Reminder, none of the Es in IEEE stand for "ethics"

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the professional organization for Electrical Engineering and related fields.

There are many reasons not to be a member.

Their over-priced and poorly implemned way of handling publications.
Their ethics board lawyer determining that conflicts-of-interest in the review board of the aforementioned ISCA'19 incident do not count as any sort of ethical violation.
The complete lack of response from any member, from president on down to regional representatives, when trying to get clarification on said ISCA'19 issue.

Instances where IEEE affiliated conferences have shown major issues:

Their lack of action in the wake of the ISCA'19 Peer-Review Fraud incident.
IEEE S&P 2021 paper ethics
- Researchers at the University of Minnesota ran experiments where they intentionally submitted malicious code to Linux kernel developers in order to test their response, without consent, and without initially consulting an IRB board. This eventually led to them getting all of UMN banned from kernel development: gregh tweet
- These researchers made a paper about this, "On the Feasibility of Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software via Hypocrite Commits" which was accepted into IEEE S&P 2021, supposedly a top computer security conference.
- The Program Chairs were notified of this ethics violation in December, yet in April the paper was still listed as being accepted into the conference.
- Apparently all attempts to raise ethics concerns with the program chairs and the IEEE official ethics reporting form led nowhere.

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