Comment by bargle0

4 years ago

Why should an academic institution be afforded any extra trust in the first place?

One guess would be that an edu address would be tied to your real identity, whereas a throwaway email could be pseudonymous.

Because there are quite a few academics working on the kernel in the first place (not a in a similar order of magnitude compared to industry, of course). Even GKH gets invited by academics to work together regularly.