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counterpoint: The LF Technical Advisory Board is taking a look at the history of UMN's contributions and their associated research projects. At present, it seems the vast majority of patches have been in good faith, but we're continuing to review the work. Several public conversations have already started around our expectations of contributors.

https://lwn.net/Articles/854064/

What the authors did is wrong, so did GKH actions. Let's be honest in calling BS out.

What is that supposed to mean? Conference publications are for research.

I pulled this from the website of Oakland 2021

Since 1980 in Oakland, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for computer security research, presenting the latest developments and bringing together researchers and practitioners. We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of security or privacy. Papers may present advances in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, verification, or empirical evaluation and measurement of secure systems.

https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2021/cfpapers.html

Their paper got accepted to S&P 2021. That is the top conference in computer security in case one is not aware.

Not justifying what they did but this apparently is still research.

Unpopular opinion: People here seem to be overreacting when Linus Torvalds thinks this is not a big deal.

https://itwire.com/open-source/torvalds-says-submitting-know...

You do know that one can contribute without having to use their institution email address ?