git commit murder

Author’s Note This book takes place in a universe parallel to ours. I know people like the people in this book. But those people aren’t these people. Any characters that share names with real people are used fictionally. The Berkeley Software Distribution community evolved in different a way than what’s portrayed in this book. The Byward University of Science and Technology in Ottawa does not exist. There is no BSD North conference, nor, sadly, a BSD Belfast. The security exploits I describe are impossible—uh, that is, highly improbable. I made up the most technically implausible exploits I could imagine. This is not a challenge, so don’t feel compelled to go create them. Git, unfortunately, is very real.