> it doesn't seem that far-fetched that some percentage of MIT staff might feel this way.
I can pretty much guarantee that some percentage of MIT staff feel this way, sure. I would actually be pretty worried if MIT had, as a job requirement, anything about feelings one way or another in this area.
And yes, there has been a significant presence of military projects at MIT in general, starting with work on radar and up through the present in the form of the Lincoln Laboratory.
What I am not on board with, based on the evidence we have, is the specific claim that MIT, as an organization, is in favor of suppressing reporting of vulnerabilities that the US government or some ally is exploiting. My strong suspicion is that there is no official position on it at the Institute level, and significant diversity of opinion on the matter among MIT affiliates when viewed as individuals, though I have no data to back up those suspicions.