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...endearingly dorky cyber-lingo, the three students were not hacking in the traditional sense—utilizing advanced computing skills to maliciously invade Faculty Club hard drives and wreak havoc. Rather, the term “hack” at MIT refers to any sly, intricately planned prank committed by a group of students on campus; this particular group of students were caught after slinking around the Faculty Room and setting off an alarm. Although it is unclear exactly what the students intended to accomplish, they apparently pried off a wall panel and exposed a crawl space...
Here at Harvard, the Lampoon, a certain semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, has its own vaunted prank tradition. Although of late its pranks are rare, small in scope, and bereft of any real ingenuity, in its heyday members were responsible for a number of shrewdly cunning acts of civil disobedience...
...prank e-mails sent Saturday night appearing to be sent by the puerile minds of The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, claimed to announce Harvard’s next president. The paltry rehash of a former hoax sparked momentary confusion in the student body...
...they did it. I mean, trying to remain relevant is tough,” he said. “The problem is that they pulled an identical prank less than a year...
Students were quickly made aware of its fraudulence through e-mails over House and extracurricular lists that explained that the address from which the e-mail was sent did not match Gross’s actual e-mail address. Furthermore, the IP (Internet Protocol) address of both prank e-mails were the same, indicating that the two e-mails were sent from the same computer...