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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by vintnes on Thursday April 22, 2021 @11:22AM (#26903755)
According to the "Hypocrite Commits" paper by Qiushi Wu, UMN specifically approved this research, granting IRB exemption.

https://github.com/QiushiWu/QiushiWu.github.io/blob/main/pap...

See section VI-A (page 8).

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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by detaro on Thursday April 22, 2021 @11:30AM (#26903866)
That doesn't conflict with the statement. If the IRB looks at something and exempts it, it has no reason to report that to the hierarchy in any way, because that's a routine process.
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