Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”
by mratsim on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @12:09PM
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Sure, don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance. But you have to admit that backdooring Linux would be huge and worth billions.
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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”
by webinvest on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @12:19PM
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Yes, Hanlon’s razor is apt but if you read TFA, you can see heavy amounts of both malice and ignorance.
From TFA: “The UMN had worked on a research paper dubbed "On the Feasibility of Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software via Hypocrite Commits". Obviously, the "Open-Source Software" (OSS) here is indicating the Linux kernel and the University had stealthily introduced Use-After-Free (UAF) vulnerability to test the susceptibility of Linux.”