Comment by incrudible
4 years ago
From an infosec perspective, I think this is a knee-jerk response to someone attempting a penetration test in good faith and failing.
The system appears to have worked, so that's good news for Linux. On the other hand, now that the university has been banned, they won't be able to find holes in the process that may remain, that's bad news for Linux.
Is it in good faith when they were already told explicitly to not continue? That's the point where it becomes intentionally malicious IMO