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The TAB report on the UMN affair

The TAB report on the UMN affair

Posted May 8, 2021 17:39 UTC (Sat) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
In reply to: The TAB report on the UMN affair by epa
Parent article: The TAB report on the UMN affair

> After all the intentionally broken commits could equally have come from a private individual or even someone working undercover for an intelligence agency.

Such a person would have been banned from submitting patches and that would have been the end of it. Indeed, that's *precisely* what happened in this case, except that everybody decided that "UMN banned" is news, whereas "John Smith banned" is not news.

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The TAB report on the UMN affair

Posted May 11, 2021 6:15 UTC (Tue) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]

I'm saying that intentionally broken patches could have come from a bad actor who didn't go on to disclose that they were bad and publish a paper about it. Most likely they would never be spotted.


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