Can't keep up with all the drama, but my impression: UMN researchers are being executed without a trial.
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Despite all that, their original paper is quite interesting.
Summary: researchers tried introducing vulnerabilities into the kernel while pretending to fix bugs and succeeded.
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no it's not interesting, it's barely any data at all and does not make any novel discoveries.
They could've just looked at past incidents, but decided to create some of their own because they were lazy.