One of You
(palladiummag.com)
On September 24, 2010, Aaron Swartz, during his fellowship at Harvard, registered a new Acer laptop on the MIT network under the alias “Garry_Host.” The client name: “Ghost_laptop.” Anyone can walk into the MIT campus, connect their computers to the network, and download articles from the digital academic library JSTOR, even without being a student—the difference was that Aaron wrote a Python script to do it faster.
On September 24, 2010, Aaron Swartz, during his fellowship at Harvard, registered a new Acer laptop on the MIT network under the alias “Garry_Host.” The client name: “Ghost_laptop.” Anyone can walk into the MIT campus, connect their computers to the network, and download articles from the digital academic library JSTOR, even without being a student—the difference was that Aaron wrote a Python script to do it faster.