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		vintnes on April 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” 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).

detaro on April 22, 2021 [–]

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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