{"id":3296,"date":"2013-01-13T21:58:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T01:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2013-01-14T02:20:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T06:20:15","slug":"since-7pm-mit-and-doj-websites-are-both-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2013\/01\/13\/since-7pm-mit-and-doj-websites-are-both-down\/","title":{"rendered":"*.MIT goes down; the Internet sees a Swartzite omen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/01\/13\/mit-edu-doj-gov-w3-gov-all-currently-down-following-investigation-into-swartz-tragedy\/\">TechCrunch<\/a> and others noted that *.mit and the redirect doj.gov (not the treasury.gov website itself) were down for some time tonight, from roughly 7pm to 10pm.  <\/p>\n<p>MIT looked into the problem, and some reported a link to a router configuration bug that&#8217;s been happening sporadically in recent weeks.  This didn&#8217;t stop many on the Internet from seeing an omen or intervention or DDOS attack related to Aaron&#8217;s death.  <\/p>\n<p>But there may be a connection. An hour ago, after access to most of the MIT network was restored, two specific MIT sites (cogen.mit.edu and <a href=\"http:\/\/rledev.mit.edu\/aaron.html\">rledev.mit.edu<\/a>) were hacked by Anonymous to display a page remembering Aaron.  The MIT Tech has the most up to date coverage: (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/tech.mit.edu\/V132\/N61\/anonymous.html\">Anonymous Hacks MIT<\/a>&#8220;)<\/p>\n<p>The Anonymous message said, in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>We tender apologies to the administrators at MIT for this temporary use of their websites. We understand that it is a time of soul-searching for all those within this great institution as much \u2014 perhaps for some involved even more so \u2014 than it is for the greater internet community.<\/em>&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechCrunch and others noted that *.mit and the redirect doj.gov (not the treasury.gov website itself) were down for some time tonight, from roughly 7pm to 10pm. MIT looked into the problem, and some reported a link to a router configuration bug that&#8217;s been happening sporadically in recent weeks. This didn&#8217;t stop many on the Internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[206,210,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-mod","category-chain-gang","category-too-weird-for-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-Ra","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}