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Someone tried something similar but with higher risk: inserting security backdoors into the Linux kernel. They were caught and (AFAIK) their entire school was permabanned from sending pull requests.

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Are you commenting about April of 2021 and do you mean the University of Minnesota?

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26949539

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26955414

This was also my thought. Search for hypocrite commits, and a link to an lwn article: https://lwn.net/Articles/853717/ . They did ban their whole school

The department said they'd report their findings to the community[1]. I wonder if they ever did?

1 = https://cse.umn.edu/cs/statement-cse-linux-kernel-research-a...

Isn't community plural? Perhaps they meant their own community but didn't say specifically which one?

It's the other two links on that page:

- https://cse.umn.edu/cs/open-letter-linux-community-april-24-...

- https://cse.umn.edu/cs/statement-computer-science-engineerin...

Thanks for pointing that out. That second link seems to close things out.

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