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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
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I suppose the one silver lining is that this could be useful data for MIT admins to locate weaknesses in their network.
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…
Back to the content of an article: Aaron suffered for nothing, but the student thinks that he should be extempt from suffering for nothing. What makes him think so? Life is pain.
He should be feeling shame right now, excruciating one, but instead he tells other people what to do and don't.
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 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…
Especially if the message of the attackers is "people who break into the network shouldn't have the cops called on them." (Although we should wait for Hal Abelson's report to find out what happened behind the scenes.)
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…
MIT politics is, and has long been, that the students of today hate the administration of today. This might be correlated to the number of folks in the MIT administration who are not MIT alums, incidentally. Fix that, and everything else follows.