I 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 p

I 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.