I don't see the university here is a real issue. Sting research is always uncommon, naturally it won't happen in many years (or ever). It's not like if you don'

I don't see the university here is a real issue. Sting research is always uncommon, naturally it won't happen in many years (or ever). It's not like if you don't ban UMN, someone else from their CS department will do another sting on the Linux kernel... What is far far more important is the overwork problem of the kernel team. And malicious attack from bad actors is way more important threat than a improper research study.