Comment by mratsim
4 years ago
Sure, don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance. But you have to admit that backdooring Linux would be huge and worth billions.
4 years ago
Sure, don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance. But you have to admit that backdooring Linux would be huge and worth billions.
Yes, Hanlon’s razor is apt but if you read TFA, you can see heavy amounts of both malice and ignorance.
From TFA: “The UMN had worked on a research paper dubbed "On the Feasibility of Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software via Hypocrite Commits". Obviously, the "Open-Source Software" (OSS) here is indicating the Linux kernel and the University had stealthily introduced Use-After-Free (UAF) vulnerability to test the susceptibility of Linux.”