But that doesn't forgive what he did.

We took it down. It was our machine, our node, and our network. Because it wasn't vetted with our security and network groups, it could have potentially caused harm to our users.

The Mac OS X 'challenge' was not an activity authorized by the UW-Madison. Once the test came to the attention of our CIO, she ended it...Our primary concern is for security and network access for UW services.

We're pretty sure that because of the upgrade, this quirky, little-used option didn't work.

We're not actually sure how many ballots were affected.

Dave is a really smart guy. [But] this was not a good thing for him to do.