University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it absolutely backfired

Posted by bob on Apr 25, 2021 10:22 AM EDT
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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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