Using Linux Becomes Suspicious Activity?

It seems the police department at Boston College has determined unilaterally that using linux (black screen with white font only) and/or using multiple operating systems constitutes suspicious activity. All over an incident of an email someone sent trying to claim someone was gay(Hardly the stuff worthy of a police department investigating, grow up people, you're in college now), they seized this students computer equipment, AND cell phone and ipod (major hacking done from RAZR, video at 11pm, student hacks to the beats of Chris Brown, also at 11). This is ridiculous on many levels. They also go on to mention that the student has been seen carrying many different computers around campus, which he claims to fix for other people. Im a computer systems major in college and I fix peoples' computers all of the time. It's a computer geek thing. Get to know us, we're amazing.

I hope that all of this is resolved, and the persons involved are educated through it. Knowledge is power, and maybe some geeks can be recruited to get to the bottom of their email problem (or not, I still think its childish.)

EFF Article:

http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/04/13

Slashdot Article:

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/14/193217&art_pos=1