&gt; I&#x27;ve heard stories from my days at MIT of people doing much worse things in server closets<p>Similar from my days at Caltech. However, there were two important considerations for this kind of thing at Caltech.<p>1. The &quot;look the other way&quot; attitude of the administration applied to members of the Caltech community, and also depended on how you were connected to Caltech. A student could get away with more than an employee or a friend&#x2F;relative of a student.<p>2. The Caltech honor system applied. If you were hacking something without permission and the people in charge of that thing told you to stop, not stopping would have likely been an honor system violation. I&#x27;m pretty sure that repeatedly purposefully evading someone&#x27;s attempt to get you to stop messing with their thing would count as ignoring a request to stop.<p>Does MIT have similar considerations?