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    2 months ago

    Yes… but it was MIT that pushed the feds to prosecute.

    Never forge to name the proper perp.

    Disgusting. And we subsidize their existence 🤡

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      2 months ago

      MIT releases financials and endowment figures for 2024:

      The Institute’s pooled investments returned 8.9 percent last year; endowment stands at $24.6 billion

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      2 months ago

      Because he literally broke into a server room and installed hardware to harvest this data.

      There’s no world where any organization, for profit or otherwise, would tolerate that. Even your local library would call the damn cops if you tried that.

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        Disgusting bootlicker spotted. For context:

        After state prosecutors dropped their charges, federal prosecutors filed a superseding indictment adding nine more felony counts, which increased Swartz’s maximum criminal exposure to 50 years of imprisonment and $1 million in fines.