I think it is important to note that this is a final paper for a course at MIT. I would not hold it to the same quality standards as novel, peer-reviewed research.
There are LaTeX errors, jokes... but of course the contents is what counts, and I don't see anything noteworthy there either. It's a good writeup of what is quite well known (if you're into this kinda thing anyway) but it's not research. I wonder whether they passed the course.
It’s a final paper, not a scientific publication nor necessarily original research.
That's unnecessarily harsh.
Welcome to HN?
He is right though in the end.
It appears to be an introductory computer and network security course for undergraduates. With that in mind, it seems like they did a good enough job, though I agree that the jokes are distracting.
I was only curious as to why this was submitted to HN.
``Lainon" is a term for a user of Lainchan, a 4chan-alike for programmers. It could be that someone in that community wrote that paper or found it interesting.