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Good. That was an overreaction and a little silly.
Ethical issues aside, the research does highlight valid problems. I'd like to see the maintainers or the Linux Foundation address those problems and at least begin a discussion on how they could make the system better in the future to strengthen the review process.
Plus at least this time it was just a university conducting an experiment. I'm sure there are more serious attempts at compromising kernel security by entities like the NSA.