Imo, the experiment was worthwhile, it exposed a risk, hopefully the kernel is better armed against similar attacks now.

They retaliated against the entire university. I don't think they learned anything.

	▲	imtringued 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		What's the alternative to banning bad actors? Making Linux maintainers take every spam commit 100% seriously as if it was legitimate? All that would bring about is that the second "research project" would be about spamming commits to the Linux kernel to DDOS the maintainers.