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		foobar33333 on April 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” >they ultimately were trying to break the security of my computers. No they weren't. They made sure the bad code never made it in. They are only guilty of wasting peoples time.

azernik on April 21, 2021 [–]

Except, from that email chain, it turns out that some of the bad code did make it into the stable branch. Clearly, they weren't keeping very close tabs on their bad code's progress through the system.

_k0o1 on April 21, 2021 | [–]

At minimum, the argument could be made that they were grossly negligent in how they conducted the experiment.

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