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nostrademons on July 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Aaronsw indicted for hacking MIT network to downlo...

Did it specify that he was writing to local disk? If I did a stunt like this, I'd probably try to write to some cloud storage like Amazon S3. I'd bet that Amazon's servers can drown JSTOR's, particularly if there's a big pipe like MIT's in-between.

sp332 on July 19, 2011 [–]

Yeah, it said he went in at least once to swap out the external disk. I assumed it was USB and not eSATA or something.

Also, it's a lot easier to find the owner of a Amazon account (credit card) than a "ghost" laptop under a cardboard box in a closet.

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