Delete OpenSourceInsecurity.pdf

[sigaloid]

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[ethanzh]

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[kyuridenamida]

Deleting OpenSourceInsecurity.pdf itself doesn't solve any problem tho

[stheid]

The goal of the paper is definitely interesting however they seem to have failed to communicate properly and misused voluntary work.

[gonace]

This is a pure case of how to try understanding something with a good cause but to do so in the most evil of ways.

[sigaloid]

Fellas, you are reading too much into a joke PR. The paper would have been a great venture into OSS vulnerabilities. had it not been in the stable branch of the largest OS in the world that billions of people rely on. Obviously the insights gained are very interesting and I would have liked if it had taken place legitimately w/o wasting days of volunteer time to look at patches and afterwards reverse the damage.

[CDAGaming]

Fellas, you are reading too much into a joke PR. The paper would have been a great venture into OSS vulnerabilities. had it not been in the stable branch of the largest OS in the world that billions of people rely on. Obviously the insights gained are very interesting and I would have liked if it had taken place legitimately w/o wasting days of volunteer time to look at patches and afterwards reverse the damage.

Agreed on this point. I'm just a person who uses a distro of Linux (Not at all experienced in the Kernel), but to see how close this was to breaching so many users, I feel it is justified that this paper is removed (Or at least re-drafted in a more ethical sense, IF the University ever gets a chance again after this debacle)

[h1z1]

Horseshit.

This should be left as a tombstone to future employers. How much money did the UMN and/or CCP pay the Linux Foundation to make this "go away"?

You're literally sorry you got CAUGHT, nothing more.

Greg KH is a fool.

[sigaloid]

This should be left as a tombstone to future employers. How much money did the UMN and/or CCP pay the Linux Foundation to make this "go away"?

Huh? what are you talking about ? it hasn't "gone away", they still cannot contribute to Linux...

[sigaloid]

You know what, after going through your profile, it explains a lot.

[h1z1]

What are YOU talking about? -- https://lwn.net/Articles/854064/

You know what, after going through your profile, it explains a lot.

Not sure what that is supposed to mean but OK. Have fun I guess.

[sigaloid]

That is the kernel maintainers going through old commits- what implies that it is letting them back in at all?

[eebssk1]

This time, time repeated itself in another way on xz-utils. Look like the paper does nothing at all LOL.

[hiroki-chen]

This time, time repeated itself in another way on xz-utils. Look like the paper does nothing at all LOL.

"The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history." lol

[omduggineni]

By the way, did UMN ever get let back into the Linux kernel?
(also came here from xz-utils)