I&#x27;ve heard stories from my days at MIT of people doing much worse things in server closets. The MIT community&#x27;s view on these things is <i>vastly</i> different from the federal government&#x27;s, and there&#x27;s a large and shocking disconnect when those laws are applied to what&#x27;s normally fairly accepted (if not explicitly, then implicitly condoned) behavior in the community.