Anonymous hacks MIT after Aaron Swartz's suicide

Thread regarding the actual message from Anonymous.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5053359

Thank you for sharing the original text. The page on mit seems to be offline now.

I needed to use an MIT website for some research and I wasn't too happy when it was down. As nobody has, I would like to voice my disapproval.

Sir, blame it on your ISP. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5052903

Not necessarily: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5053466 (from the same guy)

Here's the post: https://twitter.com/AnonymousIRC/status/290704903431655424.

Note that the URL is this: rledev.mit.edu/aaron.html That's actually a subdomain. From what it looks like someone (maybe a MIT student) came up with the subdomain and posted the site there. I doubt there was any hacking going on.

http://cogen.mit.edu/ was also hacked, and this is a MIT official page.

Great idea to deface an entire institution for the acts of a few.

Thanks anonymous for helping us understand why cyber laws are as harsh as they are. I read all over that MIT is actually open and the systems are begging to be hacked. So, I don't see how this shows you in any good light.

Anonymous = idiots

In the literal sense of the word, the exact opposite.