Comment by rurban
4 years ago
The ethics board is most likely not at fault here. They were simply lied to, if we take Lu's paper serious. I would just expell the 3 malicious actors here, the 2 students and the Prof who approved it. I don't see any fault in Wang yet.
The damage is not that big. Only 4 committers to linux in the last decade, 2 of them, the students, with malicious backdoors, the Prof not with bad code but bad ethics, and the 4th, the Ass Prof did good patches and already left them.
So the pen-test on the ethics board showed that they had not institutionalized proper safeguards regarding malicious actors? (And not even a paper on this… ;-) )