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by thelean12 1882 days ago
> Now how on earth did that warp to whatever everyone here is smoking?

There's no other option when someone on the same research team later sends them 4 diffs, 3 of which have security holes, than to assume they're still doing research in the same area.

This is what happens when you do a social experiment without at least informing someone in the organization beforehand. There's no way to verify whether it was well intentioned diffs or not. So you must assume it's not.

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Its not someone on the same team. Its someone working underneath one of the research members- a grad student who likely had no knowledge of what his supervisor did.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YIBBt6ypFtT+i994@pendragon.idea...

> These are two different projects. The one published at IEEE S&P 2021 has > completely finished in November 2020. My student Aditya is working on a new > project that is to find bugs introduced by bad patches. Please do not link > these two projects together. I am sorry that his new patches are not > correct either. He did not intentionally make the mistake.