Sorry to be a little cynical here, but I have a couple of questions.
1) Was bunnie's hack of the Xbox keys a MIT-endorsed project? Was it part of his degree work or something he did on his own time?
2) If the work was independent, what's MIT's obligation to shield bunnie in a legal sense? If it wasn't, did MIT step in and say "hey, this might piss off Microsoft if you do this" or was the work just put out there with unknown some degree of oversight?
3) bunnie was an MIT student, Arron was not. The statement "MIT gave up on me too" kind of implies the situations were similar. Were they?
Don't misunderstand me, I have immense respect for bunnie and hackers of his breed, but these things are just bugging me.
1) Was bunnie's hack of the Xbox keys a MIT-endorsed project? Was it part of his degree work or something he did on his own time?
2) If the work was independent, what's MIT's obligation to shield bunnie in a legal sense? If it wasn't, did MIT step in and say "hey, this might piss off Microsoft if you do this" or was the work just put out there with unknown some degree of oversight?
3) bunnie was an MIT student, Arron was not. The statement "MIT gave up on me too" kind of implies the situations were similar. Were they?
Don't misunderstand me, I have immense respect for bunnie and hackers of his breed, but these things are just bugging me.