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Bugdooring the Linux Kernel to get a paper into Oakland shows tremendously poor judgement. I mean, I can imagine situations in which trying to backdoor the Linux kernel could be worth it, but ... a paper? "I will demolish the Sphinx because someone promised a Snickers bar."

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They appear to have submitted the intentionally bad faith patches from sockpuppet accounts at Gmail rather than their own addresses so reverting patches from the university isn't accomplishing what it appears to be doing.

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It's not as if the kernel doesn't have an abundance of use-after-free vulnerabilities, etc. already. It's only as serious as it's being made out to be if we pretend that these issues were not incredibly common and incorrect patches introducing these bugs were not very common.

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