Univ. of Wisc. Madison pulls the plug on OS X Security Challenge

How many licks does it take to hack into a Mac mini? The world may never know. Damien mentioned the real security challenge for OS X that Dave Schroeder set up over at UW Madison... and that it had been rescheduled to end a few days earlier than planned. Well as of now it is just shut down entirely. Apparently Dave didn't get permission to set all this up, and fearing for their network, the powers that be have just clicked the OFF button. I wonder if they're running Windows servers for the rest of their network?

The page now reads: "Yesterday we discovered the Mac OSX "challenge" was not an activity authorized by the UW-Madison.
Once the test came to the attention of our CIO, she ended it. The site, test.doit.wisc.edu, will be removed from the network tonight. Our primary concern is for security and network access for UW services. We are sorry for any inconvenience this has caused to the community."

Yes, well, I can understand their concerns. But I'm a little shocked no other Mac website, host, or educational institution has picked up the gauntlet. Are we really that blasé about security?