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I suspect there won't be as many MIT hackers now that this sort of culture is no longer tolerated. Getting in trouble with your principal/dean/chairman is quite
by jwr 14y ago
I suspect there won't be as many MIT hackers now that this sort of culture is no longer tolerated. Getting in trouble with your principal/dean/chairman is quite different from facing the secret service, federal prosecution, 30 years in jail and multi-million dollar fines.
- borski 14y agoMIT over the last few years, sadly, under the Hockfield administration, has screwed hackers over - no doubt about that. Numbers decreased because of that. But they increased at the same time due to the MIT blogs and better (sometimes unintentional) publicity of MIT hacks. I honestly suspect that things will be better for hackers under Reif's administration. He does, in my humble opinion, "not suck." EDIT: Also important of note is that Aaron wasn't a student at MIT - historically, MIT students were forgiven for things like hacking, but non-MIT students were typically handed over to Cambridge Police. Typically, when hacking with a non-MIT student, you would pretend they were a 'pre-frosh' if you could.
- rdl 14y agoI've never heard anything but criticism of Hockfield on any front.