You know, some of us never had to learn from that sort of experience not to do seriously damaging things, especially when the potential for damage is so obviously high, and the activity is entirely optional.

People like you give "hackers" and at least the newer generations of MIT undergraduates a bad name.

ADDED: Your fellow members of the MIT community aren't too impressed with all this including your apology: http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N13/fakeemail.html?comments#comment...

AND MORE ADDED: And now reading them, you did this during "hell week" (midterms)? Were you even still a student then???

FINAL ADDITION: can you show us the slightest evidence you've learned anything but "Don't get caught next time" (assuming the speculation that this was more a PR stunt than anything else per some of the comments in The Tech is false)?

Disclosures: I'm class of 1983 and have close non-academic ties to Course 6.