University of Minnesota banned from Linux #011

Troy and Jacob discuss the recent developments with the University of Minnesota being banned from contributing to the open-source Linux kernel source code because of a group of researchers who submitted intentionally buggy/broken/malicious patches.

Sources:

https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-bans-university-of-minnesota-for-sending-buggy-patches-in-the-name-of-research/

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QiushiWu/qiushiwu.github.io/main/papers/OpenSourceInsecurity.pdf

https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc.pdf

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH+7ZydHv4+Y1hlx@kroah.com/

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/3B9A54F7-6A61-4A34-9EAC-95332709BAE7@northeastern.edu/

https://twitter.com/kengiter/status/1337805965459156996

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