In that context they are more than within their rights to be livid. They do, and to a very largr extent the same exact overreaction happens in private orgs and

In that context they are more than within their rights to be livid. They do, and to a very largr extent the same exact overreaction happens in private orgs and we just get to see it when it's the Linux kernel. But at the end of the day, there was an overreaction, and it was public. Both the UMN and the kernel maintainers need to step up and make improvements now, and move forward with level heads. Have any of the kernel maintainers acknowledged the primary concern behind the misguided research? That is, (quoting parent comment) "governments now have entire departments studying how to use deliberate vulnerabilities in open source projects"?