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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.
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?
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Seriously? Still on the disable-JavaScript kick? scratches head
Yep. http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/yahoo-mail-cross-site-scri... http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-Users-Accounts-Still-No...
Please let me read your blog page without needed to turn on lots of javascript. The page is blank without whitelisting JS content.
Seriously? Still on the disable-JavaScript kick? scratches head
Would you accept a Word.doc that required scripting to display itself? Shouldn't the response to a non-visible blog post be WTF?
(Strangely enough, I am able to read the page w/o js, but responding in general to this type of comment I see on HN frequently.)
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…
As a first guess, MIT students are very unlikely to react to someone causing them trouble by become more sympathetic with the people causing them trouble. 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.)
A cool thing about Aaron's activism was that it involved building things, circumventing censorship, and spreading information, rather than sabotage and denial-of-service.
If the students have failed to vehemently distance themselves and protest to the administration, or even quit MIT for somewhere else, then they are just as guilty. Their attendance abets the status quo. Especially since it's a private university. Quit whining.
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Seriously? Still on the disable-JavaScript kick? scratches head
Yeah, how silly to disable anonymous remote code execution by default. ;) Flashy pages that eschew compatibility and separation of concerns (even accessibility, seo at times) are the new standard, get used to it. Would you accept a Word.doc that required scripting to display itself? Shouldn't the response to a non-visible blog post be WTF? (Strangely enough, I am able to read the page w/o js, but responding in genera…
Please let me read your blog page without needed to turn on lots of javascript. The page is blank without whitelisting JS content.
Seriously? Still on the disable-JavaScript kick? scratches head
The internet is way better when you don't allow all of the annoying to dangerous JS to run.
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?
That was me, I think, and I believe we now know that they are uncorrelated (although I'm not paying as much attention to all of this as I should). If I recall correctly, the symptoms from a few weeks ago were with the ISPs MIT connects to, not internal to MIT's own network.