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0 pointsmpyne12y ago0 comments

If all you're worried about is finding someone to point a finger at then your plan may well work.

If you want to prevent the next gifted hacker from hanging themselves, however, then it pays to search for the truth so that lessons can be learned from what actually happened, not merely from what scenario received the most benefit of the doubt.

Note I'm not saying the MIT Report constitutes the truth if Taren's assertions don't.

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jessaustin12y ago· 1 in thread

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.

mpyneOP12y ago

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.

coldtea12y ago

>If you want to prevent the next gifted hacker from hanging themselves

No, I don't want to do that (not that I could).

What I want to do is to prevent the next gifted hacker from being prosecuted for BS and under overblown terms.

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