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I'm an MIT alum. There is no "game" being played. If a student is violating certain terms of service (e.g. downloading all of JSTOR) he/she would normally be to
by clintonb 11y ago
I'm an MIT alum. There is no "game" being played. If a student is violating certain terms of service (e.g. downloading all of JSTOR) he/she would normally be told to stop, and that's the end of it. You do it again, and you might get another warning. Alternatively, you might find yourself in front of a dean or without network privileges.
Breaking into a closet, and connecting your hardware gets you expelled. Regardless of the locked state of the door, entering a closet to which you do not have explicit access is breaking into said closet.
- ericd 11y agoI sincerely doubt it gets you expelled as long as you're not damaging anything, which I wouldn't count connecting a piece of equipment as doing. Breaking into places locked and otherwise is part of the core of MIT's culture. Did you never go roof and tunnel hacking? That said, I'm not as familiar as I should be with what MIT tried to do to get Aaron to stop, and whether he knew that they had deployed those because of what he did.