WARNING: malicious code

[Florian Weimer]

On 07/08/2014 08:53 AM, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> That may well be an issue with your imagination (or even experience). As
> for me, I'm struggling to imagine why would anyone do that
> intentionally.

I've seen something very much like this in response to posts on 
comp.lang.lisp where the respondent assumed that the poster asked for 
help with their homework, so it was intended as some form of punishment.

Sadly, devel hasn't much more culture of conduct left than 
comp.lang.lisp, so it is at least conceivable that someone would attempt 
to score a point in a discussion about patch submission procedures by 
showing that it's risky to accept contributions.  I'm not saying that 
this is what has happened, but we have to be prepared for silliness like 
that (and academics submitting patches with intentional defects as part 
of their research studies etc.).

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security