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by pdonis 4543 days ago
I don't really see why MIT had an obligation to help Aaron

The Abelson report's take on this (with which I basically agree) is that, while MIT perhaps had no "obligation", it certainly missed an opportunity to use its position to educate the US government about a technical area in which the government is, to put it bluntly, clueless.