The MIT Guide to Hacking

http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/activity/h/htgamit/text/2005/HackingSection.txt

by xtacy • 16 years ago

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sdp3• 16 years ago

It would be neat to see some of these places (tomb of the forbidden ladder, bricked in showers at the library, etc), if anyone knows where to find pictures.

splat• 16 years ago

I can't help with pictures of MIT, but there are a few pictures of some interesting places in the Caltech steam tunnels in this essay:

http://pandora.caltech.edu/~antognini/tunnels.pdf

_delirium2• 16 years ago

And for CMU, a hypercard (!) stack with a map of the steam tunnels: http://www.city-net.com/~dmm/tunnels.html

jacobolus2• 16 years ago

As a final project for a photography class a year ago, I wandered across town and took many photos of the MIT tunnels. None are online (maybe I’ll put some up someday, but since these pictures worked much better as 16"x16" prints, I’m not sure how well they’d work at a few hundred pixels on a side on a screen), unfortunately. In any case, I recommend everyone who spends any substantial amount of time in the area wander around down there sometime. It’s an interesting eerie mood (especially at 3 AM) found in few other places.

lucastx• 16 years ago

HTML version: http://jottit.com/qd874/

some1else• 16 years ago

I like this one http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2010/upside_down_lounge/

billmcneale• 16 years ago

For a guide to hacking, the author knows surprisingly little about HTML formatting.

cdawzrd• 16 years ago

Hint: Not everything on the world wide web is a HTML page.

ivarv• 16 years ago

For more on urban exploration check out http://www.infiltration.org/ and the handy dandy companion book "Access All Areas" ( http://www.infiltration.org/aaa.html )

dschobel• 16 years ago

One of my favorite google easter eggs is support for smoots (the unit mentioned in the article, equivalent to the length of a Mr. Oliver Smoot when lying down).

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=convert+1+smoot+to+feet

10ren• 16 years ago

"View source" renders it with wraparound.

keefe• 16 years ago

this is the final precept, obfuscate your knowledge...

mitko2• 16 years ago

>> A dean, who had been informed about the hack after the arrest, went down to bail the students out. He pointed out to the detective that the battery-lined coats were only circumstantial evidence. At this point the dean opened his own battery-lined coat and declared that “all Tech men carry batteries.”

Unfortunately, these times where MIT officials will protect students seem to be gone by now.

jacobolus2• 16 years ago

You don't think if an MIT frat was planning a harmless(ish) prank of the Harvard–Yale game today, and some Harvard students learned of it and tried to get the MIT students arrested, that the MIT deans would be looking to help their students out of trouble?

mitko2• 16 years ago

Definitely. There was a case a couple of years ago. Search "Star Simpson" for more info.

Edit: the case was not about hacking "oficially"

sabj• 16 years ago

Great piece! I love the hacking ethos of the MIT hacks / hackers. One of my recent favorites was their Harvard Master Chief / Halo 3 hack: http://www.joystiq.com/2007/09/25/the-best-thing-youll-see-t...

PigBoyOhBoy• 16 years ago

This brings back many happy memories of crawling through filthy ductwork in search of hidden spaces. I still have a box with rolls and rolls of B/W negatives that I shot in '83 to document some of the secret places at MIT. All I need is about 40 hours of free time and I'll scan them all...

The MIT Guide to Hacking

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