Comment by DetroitThrow

>to wasting a bit of someones time is disingenuous

This introduced security vulnerabilities to stable branches of the project, the impact of which could have severely affected Linux, its contributors, and its users (such as those who trust their PII data to be managed by Linux servers).

The potential blast radius for their behavior being poorly tracked and not reverted is millions if not billions of devices and people. What if a researcher didn't revert one of these commits before it reached a stable branch and then a release was built? Linux users were lucky enough that Greg was able to revert the changes AFTER they reached stable trees.

There was a clear need of informed consent of *at least* leadership of the project, and to say otherwise is very much in defense of or downplaying the recklessness of their behavior.

I acknowledged that lives are not at play, but that doesn't mean that the only consequence or concern here was wasting the maintainers time, especially when they sought an IRB exemption for "non-human research" when most scientists would consider this very human research.