"To our knowledge, this is the first such realistic experiment."
I find it hard to believe that nobody has tried this before in a closed lab setting. Perhaps the scale (3000 installs on 98 machines) is the differentiating factor. Or perhaps the others were kept quiet.
Its been posted twice in the past two days, neither story getting attention, a single comment or more than one upvote between the two stories combined. I think a repost is OK here.