Originally posted by andyprough
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I agree with you that this did ultimately expose problems in the Linux development community and the code approval processes, we can call it silver lining. It's also not the first time something like that happens - years ago someone from Microsoft submitted a patch with a magic constant defined as 0xB16B00B5 (big boobs) and it was only found ex-post. That time it was a juvenile joke with no actual intent to do harm to users and it hurt no-one except the politically correct police; but it already demonstrated that potentially unwanted code could sneak into the upstream kernel. I'm not sure what the real solution is here, but some changes are probably needed.
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