Ahem...the machines doing this were NOT systems run by admins, but by people setting up poorly configured Linux boxes on a campus with over 20,000 systems on line.
Doesn't matter. It was your admin/school's responsibility. They're the ones with the authority to control the gateways from your network to the internet and they're the ones with the authority to scan all the nodes within your intranet.
Your solution is as if someone on your block were a thief, and to solve the problem the authorities allowed various vigilante gangs to throw everyone on the block in jail.
Big diff between a public-owned block and a private/company-owned network.
But to use your analogy... Countries sometimes block all inbound flights/travelers from cities or even entire countries when the remote location fails to perform some basic task - such as containing disease outbreaks.
- Dan.
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