MIT News Office: Comment on LaMacchia Indictment

Author(s)
Anonymous
Parent Collection
Parent Resource
The David LaMacchia Case
Publisher
Online Ethics Center
Year
1994
Rights
Use of Materials on the OEC
Discipline(s)
Computer Sciences
Computer, Math, and Physical Sciences
Topics
Security
Privacy and Surveillance
Case Study / Scenario
Description

An official statement from MIT News Office detaling the actions taken after the discovery that an MIT computer was at the center of the file-sharing network.

Body

ATTENTION - The FORMAT of the following article has been modified from its original appearance for ease of reading. No content or information has been removed from this article.

The MIT News Office issued this comment Thursday night on the indictment of David Lamacchia, a junior at MIT:

"MIT computer specialists discovered in December that an MIT computer in a computer center used by students was being used to distribute software. That information was turned over to the MIT Campus Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. MIT personnel cooperated in the subsequent FBI investigation."

Notes

Date: April 7, 1994.

Citation
Anonymous. . MIT News Office: Comment on LaMacchia Indictment. Online Ethics Center. DOI:. https://onlineethics.org/cases/mit-news-office-comment-lamacchia-indictment.