How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel
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It all started with an email.
  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    2 years ago

    This is wild speculation, but the fact that neither the researchers nor the department head would give a comment makes me think that the blowback did result in an ongoing ethics investigation.

  • xXthrowawayXx [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    The one they’re catching is dumb college kids who kept records and threw up their hands when caught. Quote from the article “this hack is a long time coming”. The kernel maintainers were mad because they were being experimented on, not because it was coming from the state university systems that have histories of surveillance state collaboration.

    Don’t assume using foss makes you safe.

  • blight [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    the paper hit a number of nerves among a very passionate (and very online) community

    Oh. No.