til i learned about the "hypocrite commits" paper fiasco, and, i must say, i don't get it. that paper was retracted on "ethical grounds", which i could relate to, but come on---this is from the community that routinely publishes vulnerabilities before properly patching them, so.

i mean, if sending 5 short PRs to linux kernel team, then after they are accepted saying "don't commit these, they are incorrect, here are better ones" is wasting people time and worthy of paper retraction, then publishing meltdown, spectre and all followups are.. what exactly?

don't get me wrong, its great that that community is looking into ethics considerations and whatnot, just that focusing on the process of the hypocrite commits paper while ignoring, say, the entire usenix security and blackhat conferences is a bit, shall we say, hypocrite?