Insanely stupid
Because it would be insanely stupid for an academic at a university to do that. These people have pretty good jobs already, don't particularly want a massive payday (they are in academia after all, not known for its inflated salaries) and it would be fairly easy to trace it back to them.
This is a crazy overgeneralisation. It's a bit like saying all French people smoke like chimneys, and spend an inordinate amount of time shagging and drinking wine.
There are 194,00 academic staff in UK universities etc, and 81,000 PhD students. And that's just the UK. You can't make sweeping statements about the integrity, life goals and avariciousness of millions of people worldwide like that.
I'll point to the recent scandals about inflated vice chancellor pay as a banal example of academics who clearly do want massive paydays, and that the majority of postdocs in academia are on short term contracts and so lack anything approaching job security.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
