> Proactively punish the whole UMN does nothing to address the real issue here.
Sorry, but academics using the presumption of good faith that their status brings to do black/gray hat security work using an open source project of critical social importance as a dupe is a very real problem on its own. And it absolutely requires a separate solution. Other academic fields treat research ethics as critically important. Something like would simply end the career of someone in medicine, for example. Maybe computer science should too.
That the public kernel maintainers need more support and resources is a problem also. But the solution is different. We should be willing to discuss both and not use the latter as a way to make excuses for the nutjobs at Minnesota.
Sorry, but academics using the presumption of good faith that their status brings to do black/gray hat security work using an open source project of critical social importance as a dupe is a very real problem on its own. And it absolutely requires a separate solution. Other academic fields treat research ethics as critically important. Something like would simply end the career of someone in medicine, for example. Maybe computer science should too.
That the public kernel maintainers need more support and resources is a problem also. But the solution is different. We should be willing to discuss both and not use the latter as a way to make excuses for the nutjobs at Minnesota.