Plenty more bans are being made. To be fair, the topic itself states: Breaking NDA, asking about warez, hackintosh, unsupported VMs or proprietary information = kickban. Obviously this is proprietary information, so it doesn't belong in ##apple.
He treaded on thin water and he fell in. He should have asked for explicit permission to start pentesting instead of putting his academic career in a volatile state.
In some WWII submarines, the sleeping room lined with bunks for the bulk of the staff, the lighting is red. Why? Because you can sleep in it easily -- it's always just red in that room because there are some day and night shifts even on a sub.
Neat! You should keep track of your man page reading and share your experience! I'm anticipating your homepage growing into a wonderful electronic flower of information.
Adding to your point that this is old news: https://citp.princeton.edu/research/memory/ [LEST WE REMEMBER: COLD BOOT ATTACKS ON ENCRYPTION KEYS]. I think this was on HN awhile ago...
The real news is the commercial tool that implements the memory dumping and key extraction.