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MIT's official campus guide brags about the hacks as a way to try to attract students[1]. They are advertising the police car on the dome as a positive thing.

I don't see any reason to think they would be upset about him going in an unlocked closet. The previous quote mentions he was part of a puzzle hunt. If he was creating a part of that hunt and used that closet as a part of a puzzle I would think they would have been ok with it. The walls were covered with graffiti. How many years of prison were the students who drew the graffiti threatened with?

[1] https://institute-events.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documen...