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I'm not surprised. That seems to be the MIT ethos since Stallman proclaimed the best account password for all users was the enter key.
by jasonzemos 14y ago
I'm not surprised. That seems to be the MIT ethos since Stallman proclaimed the best account password for all users was the enter key.
- sp332 14y agoIt wasn't just Stallman. Hacker subculture has always contained an element that is opposed to unequal access, like locks. And it's still going strong; last month's CCC hacker conference in Hamburg had a large lockpicking workshop. http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/wiki/Lockpicking_Area http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/wiki/Lockpicking_Area
- meaty 14y agoHe forgot the human condition when he came up with that...
- carlob 14y agoSeveral times while visiting Boston, I have entered the medialab on weekends and no one prevented me from getting a good tour of the building. I always thought this was part of the MIT culture, not a blunder of security.
- Timmmmbob 14y agoThat's how all universities work. It's quite impractical to secure them properly, and nobody can hope to recognise all the students (and visitors!) so you can basically walk around any university and as long as you look like you belong there nobody will challenge you.
- carlob 14y agoNo, I'll have to disagree here. I've spent around 10 years in several universities both in Europe and the US and most of them are closed during weekends and you can't walk around and touch experiments when no one is around. MIT is special in its openness, or at least the Medialab is (you can't really walk in any lab of the Physics department).
- tjr 14y agoYet they lock the doors to the classrooms, in which are chalkboards and chairs...