University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it absolutely backfired
'Our community does not appreciate being experimented on' says Kroah-Hartman Share Copy 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. And now their entire school – or at least anyone using a umn.edu email address – has been banned from offering future Linux kernel contributions. Qiushi Wu, a doctoral student in computer science and engineering at the American college, and Kangjie Lu, assistant professor at the school, pe...
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