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by kmeisthax 1007 days ago
Someone tried something similar but with higher risk: inserting security backdoors into the Linux kernel. They were caught and (AFAIK) their entire school was permabanned from sending pull requests.
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hakre 1007 days ago
Are you commenting about April of 2021 and do you mean the University of Minnesota?

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26949539

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26955414

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minetest2048 1007 days ago
This was also my thought. Search for hypocrite commits, and a link to an lwn article: https://lwn.net/Articles/853717/ . They did ban their whole school
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carbocation 1007 days ago
The department said they'd report their findings to the community[1]. I wonder if they ever did?

1 = https://cse.umn.edu/cs/statement-cse-linux-kernel-research-a...

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Pazzaz 1007 days ago
It's the other two links on that page:

- https://cse.umn.edu/cs/open-letter-linux-community-april-24-...

- https://cse.umn.edu/cs/statement-computer-science-engineerin...

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carbocation 1007 days ago
Thanks for pointing that out. That second link seems to close things out.
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hakre 1007 days ago
Isn't community plural? Perhaps they meant their own community but didn't say specifically which one?
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