Revolt of the Lab Rats? Or Voyeur Caught Watching?

When your research subjects notice you watching…. The fine folks over at Little Green Footballs discovered
“a pile of results and code” from an observation of their on-line
discourse on a server at Carnegie Mellon. That led to a heated thread
of sometimes paranoid speculation that eventually calmed down
(somewhat) when the researcher’s academic advisors posted a good-natured mea-culpa (wea-culpa?) and explanation.