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Re:MIT Report is a whitewash. My Statement in Response by jessaustin on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @02:53PM (#6129177)
If you want to prevent the next gifted hacker from hanging themselves...

Is that what we're doing here? I thought it was more about MIT administration being absolute shits to important, creative, contributing members of the community, and how they might stop doing that. Swartz's suicide is not the only thing that makes MIT's behavior shameful. Ideally, next time the administration will correct their craven, copsucking behavior before it gets to that point.

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Re:MIT Report is a whitewash. My Statement in Response by mpyne on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @03:11PM (#6129300)
As far as I can tell the only thing MIT did that was disagreeable was not pushing harder against the felony variant of the CFAA charges.

"creating, contributing" member or not, Aaron didn't deserve extra privileges (or warrant worse punishment) compared to anyone else who had DDoS'ed MIT's network and repeatedly gained unauthorized access to their internal subnet.

MIT should not have allowed themselves to be used in throwing the book, but I would hardly call them a bunch of absolute shits over this.

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