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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?


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.


I am taking the second sentence as sarcasm.


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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