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Isn't this exactly the kind of adversarial behavior that got the University of Minnesota banned from contributing to the Linux kernel? Made an intentionally bad-faith commit, then released it in order to prove a point about how insecure the software ecosystem is?

Great, he made his point that we're all dummies and we'll all just blindly run any ol' code he sends us. In the process he did very serious damage to his reputation and any trust relationship he had with the broader community. Other projects have banned people for this kind of behavior.

[dralley]

Not exactly, UofM was accused of deliberately contributing security flaws to the Linux kernel. dtolnay proved a point, but it's not like his binary included a malicious payload.