Researchers Tried to Add Vulnerabilities to Linux Kernel

Lots of discussion (>1,000 comments) about this over the past 24 hours or so: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=tru...

> It is still unclear at this moment what other open source projects they tried to hijack, and what is the actual number of vulnerabilities they succeeded in inserting to various open source projects.

This will be the worst part of the fallout, as major OSS projects start retroactively removing and banning contributions coming from University of Minnesota students just to be on the safe side. They've really poisoned the well here.