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Old 04-25-2021, 09:33 AM   #1
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LXer: University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it absolutely backfired

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'Our community does not appreciate being experimented on' says Kroah-Hartman. Updated Computer scientists at the University of Minnesota theorized they could sneak vulnerabilities into open-source software – but when they tried subverting the Linux kernel, it backfired spectacularly.…

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Old 04-25-2021, 08:50 PM   #2
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Why are they doing that? Better to do a couple of hands-on melscience chemistry experiments instead. It would be a lot more useful.
 
  


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