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Artificial truth

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Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin

In 2020, my friend anarcat published the CLA Denial-Of-Service attack , an interesting musing on the possibility of weaponising CLA, boiling down to: find a critical bug figure out a [non-trivial] patch for the bug publish the patch in their issue tracker forever refuse to sign the CLA The obvious solution to this conundrum is to perform clean-room reimplementation : have a person read the patch and produce a specification, then have a second distinct person read the specification and produce a patch. It's not a silver bullet, as the less trivial the change, the lengthier the specification, an

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