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 hav

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.