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To: Hunton Peck
In an indictment released Tuesday, prosecutors say Swartz stole 4.8 million articles between September 2010 and January after breaking into a computer wiring closet on MIT's campus

That's not hacking.

5 posted on 07/19/2011 2:20:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." - Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Physical access is one of the often forgotten elements of network security. If the perp has access to the equipment, he has access to the data. Would I call that “hacking”, no not really. Though it does take some hacking skills after you get physical access.


14 posted on 07/19/2011 3:34:55 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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