"Let that sink in for a moment. The researchers, in the name of academia, decided to commit flawed code (that would, in turn, introduce other serious issues) into the Linux kernel, to prove they could do it."
I'm glad it was caught. But I suspect that there would be other crap in already. It is certainly surprising that academia was so blatant as that - you'd think they would use a more roundabout way to get this in.
I think the reason this submission isn't getting traction is that it's been discussed kind of ad nauseam for the past few days... This isn't the best link, but I feel like hn.algolia.com isn't great about keywords in reverse order... But at least it's something:
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 15.9 ms ] threadI'm glad it was caught. But I suspect that there would be other crap in already. It is certainly surprising that academia was so blatant as that - you'd think they would use a more roundabout way to get this in.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=tru...