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danielweber on Jan 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son'...

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.

sigzero on Jan 3, 2014 [–]

I am taking the second sentence as sarcasm.

walid on Jan 4, 2014 | [–]

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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