This wasn&#x27;t implicitly or explicitly condoned. MIT had detected what Aaron was doing, and deployed countermeasures. Aaron defeated those countermeasures; MIT deployed tougher ones, and Aaron escalated again by breaking into the server closet and patching his laptop directly into the network switch, knowing it was the only way to bypass the considerable efforts MIT was making to protect itself.<p>This was no, &quot;Oops, I didn&#x27;t realize you minded!&quot; situation. Aaron was fully aware that MIT didn&#x27;t approve of what he was doing, and he didn&#x27;t care, and was actively battling to do what he pleased anyway.