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Everyone has access to the MIT network. There is an open guest wifi network, with a captive portal asking you to provide a name/email to register. He put a fake
by lawnchair_larry 14y ago
Everyone has access to the MIT network. There is an open guest wifi network, with a captive portal asking you to provide a name/email to register. He put a fake name (Gary Host) and a throwaway mailinator address (and was charged with wire fraud for doing so).
JSTOR provides unlimited access to MIT and many other schools. Anyone on the MIT network had access to JSTOR. He was not on a JSTOR network.
When JSTOR saw that one user was requesting a lot of files, they assumed a bad motive, and banned the IP address. After he got a new IP address, JSTOR contacted MIT about it, and they banned the MAC address from their wifi network.
- mpyne 14y ago> Everyone has access to the MIT network. There is an open guest wifi network, with a captive portal asking you to provide a name/email to register. He put a fake name (Gary Host) and a throwaway mailinator address (and was charged with wire fraud for doing so). That's just it though, that's not correct. What you might have meant was: Everyone starts off with access to the MIT network. It is not MIT's obligation to continue to provide network services to anyone that they have a previous contract for. And even for those with contracts, it would almost certainly include boilerplate to the effect that services will be terminated for abuse of the network. > When JSTOR saw that one user was requesting a lot of files, they assumed a bad motive, and banned the IP address. > After he got a new IP address, JSTOR contacted MIT about it, and they banned the MAC address from their wifi network. So you yourself admit: aaronsw started off with access to both JSTOR and MIT networks, and was explicitly kicked off of them both. What steps did Aaron take to ensure that he was welcome on the networks again when he later tried to connect?