University of Minnesota thought it would be cool to try to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it backfired badly

Posted by bob on Apr 22, 2021 1:48 AM EDT
The Register; By Thomas Claburn
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'Our community does not appreciate being experimented on' says Kroah-Hartman. Computer scientists at the University of Minnesota theorized that they could sneak vulnerabilities into open-source software – but when they tried subverting the Linux kernel, they got caught red-handed.…

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