[jmgrosen]

I don’t think that sort of hack would have been taken down any less quickly in the past. The only time dome hacks have lasted a while have been when they’re extremely tricky to take down.

I have some further opinions about what you allude to at the end of your comment, but that should probably be taken offline.

[sokoloff]

R2D2 hack was left up for more than a day...

http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1999/r2d2/

Several Lobby 7 hacks were also left up for a while (though admittedly less obvious and dangerous perhaps than Great Dome hacks).

[hprotagonist]

r2d2 also happened 19 years ago.

I know people who were at MIT then. It was, by all accounts, a vastly different place.

[stonecraftwolf]

Yeah, but so was the rest of the country.

They did the annual sodium drop pretty soon after 9/11 and were somehow surprised when the response was different.

For smart people, they could be really, really dumb.

[mjevans]

The terrorists won that day, not because of the physical destruction, but because of the literal description of their profession. Terror was instilled, and the public psyche still hasn't been treated properly, it's like the nation as a whole has PTSD.

[jmgrosen]

Earth Day hack, from last year: http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2017/earth_day/ was left up for several days (not listed there, but I was around to see it up)