Imo, the experiment was worthwhile, it exposed a risk, hopefully the kernel is b...

knowitnone3 · 2026-01-13T23:32:57 1768347177

They retaliated against the entire university. I don't think they learned anything.

imtringued · 2026-01-14T08:57:49 1768381069

What's the alternative to banning bad actors? Making Linux maintainers take every spam commit 100% seriously as if it was legitimate? All that would bring about is that the second "research project" would be about spamming commits to the Linux kernel to DDOS the maintainers.