MIT students are warned that hacks have limits

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/10/02/mit_students
_are_warned_that_hacks_have_limits/

By Linda K. Wertheimer, Globe Staff  |  October 2, 2007

Causing a little mayhem is acceptable, but breaking the law is not, a top
MIT official warned students in a campuswide e-mail yesterday after a series
of high-profile pranks gone awry. The same goes for endangering yourself or
acting irresponsibly in the process.

Since last school year, students from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology have made headlines after breaking into the school's Faculty Club
and allegedly dumping sodium metal in the Charles River. Some students said
the acts were done in the spirit of the school's long-chronicled tradition
known as hacking, MIT-speak for harmless pranks (not the theft of computer
records.)

"Historically, hacks have been creatively and thoughtfully executed without
injury, destruction of property, or public notoriety for the hackers or
MIT," Phillip Clay, the school's chancellor, said in the e-mail.

Clay cited references to the hacking code, which is on display for all to
see in the Stata Center, a campus building. "True hackers quickly identify
themselves when they encounter the police, and they do not confront or evade
the police," he wrote in the e-mail. "Hackers do not create public hazards."

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