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@mjd ? That looks dramatically more plausible than pretty much anything that mentions "President Donald Trump".

@lcamtuf This code has a lot of problems. Like the race vuln in /bin/mkdir.

In pdp-11 Unix, mkdir was a suid-root program that did a mknod to create the directory, and then a chown to change its ownership to other-than-root. But something else could rename the directory after the mknod, and replace it with a link to, e.g., /etc/passwd, which would then get chowned.

On later versions with ^Z job control, a ^Z on mkdir had good odds of catching it between the two syscalls; no code required.

@gwynnion There's some deceptive language in the bill that says that a REAL ID which proves citizenship is acceptable at the polls. The trick is that most REAL IDs do not prove citizenship -- legal resident aliens are eligible, and get them all the time. The ones that do ("enhanced" REAL ID) are available in only a few border states, and most residents of those states don't have them because even there, it's an extra bother.

@pravda Worth noting that the particular AIs used in the study are current, but in at least two of three cases, the bargain-basement current offering from the providers: Gemini 3 Flash, and Claude Sonnet. (The other is "GPT-5.2", which is branding applied to three different models and they don't say which -- but if you don't explicitly ask, you usually get the cheap one.)