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They made a choice to involve the feds. This could very easily have been handled internally, and the result would have been effective from their viewpoint. Ca
by waterlesscloud 14y ago
They made a choice to involve the feds. This could very easily have been handled internally, and the result would have been effective from their viewpoint. Catch him using the same methods and give him a stern talking to from campus police, then not press charges. Pretty much what happened to people bending and even openly breaking the rules on campuses around the world for decades, if not centuries.
But someone at MIT wanted to call in the feds. Make case hard and tough and send someone to prison for causing them inconvenience. This was a decision someone there made.
- danielweber 14y agoThey made a choice to involve the feds. Yes, because someone -- they did not know who, but someone -- kept on breaking into their network. Over and over and over and over. handled internally He wasn't a student. the result would have been effective from their viewpoint They kept on telling him "no" and he kept on going in anyway. It seems you think the 13th time they told him "no" he would have stopped, when he ignored the first 12 times. By the time you get to the police chasing someone through the halls, you have passed the point where you can expect to get away with "a stern talking to." (I shouldn't have to say it, but I will anyway: that doesn't mean that a Federal prosecution for decades in prison is the proper response, either.)
- waterlesscloud 14y agoWhether or not he was a student has nothing to do with whether or not MIT could choose to handle it internally. And yes, I do believe that being taken in by campus law enforcement and read the riot act, so to speak, would have been effective. That's much more serious than the previous attempts to tell him no.