MIT network attacks post-mortem

The most interesting bit for me in this article

    MIT’s open network is essential to collaboration in 
    teaching and learning at the Institute, Fitzgerald says. 
    “IS&T is working to identify and address other 
    vulnerabilities that present a risk to the campus 
    network and key services — although the nature of these 
    complex systems makes it difficult to eliminate risk 
    completely,” she says. “Community members should be 
    assured that particular attention is being paid to 
    minimizing risks and outages in the future.”

In my books, this is a trade off - if you want to keep your networks open, you will invite some trouble.

The article does not mention that the Anonymous had defaced MIT's main website immediately before the Jan 13 MITnet outage: http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/anonymous.html

If their domain was hijacked and repointed to rouge nameservers, I would have expected the attackers to redirect mail (MX records) in addition to web traffic. But this article didn't mention anything about email being potentially intercepted by hackers. Did I miss something?

Can someone explain to me why every little news tidbit relating to MIT has to be on the HN front page 24/7? My goodness, it's like this is the MIT fan club.

Why is this being posted here? It's a notice from MIT to the MIT community about network problems they have been having. I attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, should I post every little announcement from their news feed on HN? I'm so sick of this mindless worshiping of a school just because it is a great university.

There are plenty of other higher-education institutions that offer excellent programs. Yet somehow "MIT", "Stanford", "Carnegie Mellon", etc are the only names people want to hear of engineering universities, all other institutions are just "schools".