<story><title>How M.I.T. Ensnared a Hacker, Bucking a Freewheeling Culture</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/technology/how-mit-ensnared-a-hacker-bucking-a-freewheeling-culture.html?hpw&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tchalla</author><text>In order to understand why this incident was even more shocking than usual, one just needs to read this snippet&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    The arrest shocked friends of Mr. Swartz, as well as 
    M.I.T. alumni. Brewster Kahle, an M.I.T. graduate and 
    founder of the digital library Internet Archive, where 
    Mr. Swartz gave programming assistance, wrote: “When I 
    was at M.I.T., if someone went to hack the system, say 
    by downloading databases to play with them, might be 
    called a hero, get a degree, and start a company. But 
    they called the cops on him. Cops.”
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
I find the change of perspective - from hero to criminal - from MIT quite astonishing. I wonder if this incident makes current students wary about the change in &lt;i&gt;MIT ethos&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>
<story><title>How M.I.T. Ensnared a Hacker, Bucking a Freewheeling Culture</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/technology/how-mit-ensnared-a-hacker-bucking-a-freewheeling-culture.html?hpw&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>waterlesscloud</author><text>&quot;At 9:44 a.m. the M.I.T. police were called in; by 10:30 a.m., the Cambridge police were en route, and by 11 a.m., Michael Pickett, a Secret Service agent and expert on computer crime, was on the scene. &quot;&lt;p&gt;Less than 1.5 hours from campus cops to Secret Service &lt;i&gt;on scene&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>