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Re:Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death by Zigurd on Thursday January 02, 2014 @10:28PM (#7003977)
MIT leadership had a duty to act reasonably, and they didn't. MIT's position should have been that, at most, this amounted to trespassing and matter for the Cambridge PD. Aaron Swartz was no threat to MIT's network. They might not have prevented subsequent events, but they failed, horribly, by not speaking up for a reasonable outcome.

MIT's IS&T office had a knee jerk security-oriented reaction, and was over impressed with interacting with Steven Heymann, who is a fixture at the sort of conferences where Swartz's "crime" is inflated out of proportion.

It's not OK that Heymann, Ortiz, and MIT's personnel who overcooked this case contributed to the death of Aaron Swartz. And it's not OK they got away with it so far.

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Re:Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death by arabellatv on Friday January 03, 2014 @02:09AM (#7004513)
Yes. I agree. What were MIT's and Heymann's true motivations for blowing it up to a security issue? Did they act out of fear or out of ego? Regardless, they exacerbated the issue (just as media sensationalizes stories). It's upsetting that such intelligent people would fail to think through the situation. Or even worse...they did think it through and planned to blow this up as big as possible to prove a point or make an example out of Swartz?
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Re:Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death by danielweber on Friday January 03, 2014 @08:11AM (#7005229)
It was a security issue because some guy kept on breaking into their network and had escalated to physical intrusion to achieve his goals.

They didn't know the guy was Aaron Swartz and that they ought to have been privileged to have him on their network, invited or not.

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Re:Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death by sigzero on Friday January 03, 2014 @08:44AM (#7005330)
I am taking the second sentence as sarcasm.
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Re:Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death by walid on Saturday January 04, 2014 @07:00AM (#7010801)
Why are you taking it as sarcasm? MIT didn't know it was him until they installed a camera and guest logins are the norm and apparently/reportedly have high privileges.
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