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Imo, the experiment was worthwhile, it exposed a risk, hopefully the kernel is better armed against similar attacks now.

• knowitnone3 9mo ago
  They retaliated against the entire university. I don't think they learned anything.
  • imtringued 9mo ago
    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.
  • kahrl 9mo ago
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