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Comment by coldpie

4 years ago

Perhaps the research just simply shouldn't be done. What are the benefits of this research? Does it outweigh the costs?

What's the harm exactly? Greg becomes upset? Is there evidence that any intentional exploits made it into the kernel? The process worked, as far I can see.

What's the benefit? You raise trust in the process behind one of the most critical pieces of software.

  • > What's the harm exactly?

    It is wasting a lot of peoples' time.

    > What's the benefit? You raise trust in the process behind one of the most critical pieces of software.

    I'm skeptical that a research paper by some nobodies from a state university will accomplish this.

    • > It is wasting a lot of peoples' time.

      If you run a test on your codebase and it passes, do you find that writing the test was a waste of time?

      > I'm skeptical that a research paper by some nobodies from a state university will accomplish this.

      It did for me.

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