Comment by letmetweakit
1 day ago
Imo, the experiment was worthwhile, it exposed a risk, hopefully the kernel is better armed against similar attacks now.
1 day ago
Imo, the experiment was worthwhile, it exposed a risk, hopefully the kernel is better armed against similar attacks now.
They retaliated against the entire university. I don't think they learned anything.
What's the alternative to banning bad actors? Making Linux maintainers take every spam commit 100% seriously as if it was legitimate? All that would bring about is that the second "research project" would be about spamming commits to the Linux kernel to DDOS the maintainers.
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