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Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network

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Re: Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network

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Post by paupino_masano »

thorum wrote: post #8
paupino_masano wrote: post #3

I'm just getting a blank page - is that what others are seeing?

Are you using NoScript or something like it? The page needs JS to render.

Hmm, it does seem that the page is being returned but I get JS errors in Chrome, Firefox and Safari on OSX (blogger not defined). Oh well, never mind - the Pastebin and screenshots above give the gist of the story!

Re: Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network

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Post by latj »

I do not condone the attacks that may be occurring. However, if you are trying to get someone's attention- it makes more sense to get the attention of the students rather than the administration. Today's MIT students are tomorrow's death-ray designers, robot-maintainers, and policy makers. They are tomorrow's administration- and they may not have made up their minds yet about ethical issues of intellectual property or the nature of doing and sharing science. It doesnt make sense to target the administration of today. They have already made up their minds.

Re: Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network

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Post by mayneack »

thorum wrote: post #10

I don't go to MIT, but a commenter on a previous article about this said that MIT's network had been having trouble for weeks. That is, before the Aaron Swartz tragedy. Is there some other reason why someone would be DDOS'ing MIT?

I'm guessing that a non trivial number of people heard about it and decided to join the attack, regardless of whether or not it was actually an attack to begin with.

Re: Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network

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Post by lwf »

mayneack wrote: post #15
Apocryphon wrote: post #13

I suppose the one silver lining is that this could be useful data for MIT admins to locate weaknesses in their network.

Good timing too as I assume IAP is an off peak time for people's work getting disrupted.

There's a lot going on during IAP… see for example http://student.mit.edu/iap/fc6.html

Re: Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network

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Post by danielweber »

Apocryphon wrote: post #13

I suppose the one silver lining is that this could be useful data for MIT admins to locate weaknesses in their network.

It's not supposed to be a hardened network that freaks out whenever anyone connects to it.

Or is that the goal? To make MIT stop being so open?

Re: Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network

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Post by mayneack »

latj wrote: post #14

I do not condone the attacks that may be occurring. However, if you are trying to get someone's attention- it makes more sense to get the attention of the students rather than the administration. Today's MIT students are tomorrow's death-ray designers, robot-maintainers, and policy makers. They are tomorrow's administration- and they may not have made up their minds yet about ethical issues of intellectual property o…

I'd say it's even more counterproductive then. No one at mit hadn't heard of the scandal at this point, but a few people's minds might get changed on hacktivists in general.

Putting up the messages on those department sites won't inconvenience a bunch of people, but this might.

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