It's kind of ridiculous. He only posted a silly little phrase on their website.
I do not support crimes of any sort, but much like illegally downloading music, selecting particular people to make "examples" of with over-the-top punishments is immoral. The punishment does not fit the crime here at all.
On another note, as a GT alumni, I find his prank absolutely hilarious. There is also a tradition at Georgia Tech of stealing a "T" off the top of the main administration building. These "T"s are massive; I believe they weigh close to 200 pounds. How anyone manages to scale a building and pull one down is beyond me. Especially with all the pressure sensitive equipment they have up there nowadays. The tradition is supposedly banned since someone can get hurt, but a guy managed to pull it off last year, and the whole school thought it was fantastic.
Hell, as a Georgia Alumni, I think it's hilarious!
I'm surprised a GT student was so careless TBH. Tor + an anonymous proxy if you're gonna be futzing around in someone else's network, even if you don't intend to cause any tangible damage!
Interestingly enough, it may not even have been as complicated as that.
According to one Reddit commenter, the UGA calendar is left wide open for submissions - and in some cases, posts may be under minimal (if any) review. So it may be that he simply found the wide open URL, filled out a form, and hit 'submit'.
Seems like that would be fair game without using Tor or some other proxy - since there are no terms or conditions of use mentioned on the form, seems like it's open to anyone to post. But who's to say?
So use Tor from someplace that won't be able to tell that you were one of a few people accessing Tor at that moment. Just go to a coffee shop or something.
Technically it'd be fine, there wouldn't be any direct evidence... but using a VPN on campus at the same time a bomb threat comes in through Tor could be enough to draw some suspicion. For something like this though I don't think they'd dig that deep.
I sat next to a guy at a bar after that happened(worked for the company that was going to put it back up, I think) and he said the guy who got it down just unbolted it and used some rope to lower it down. Didn't seem very complex.
He then put it in his own truck and drove off, so he was pretty quickly caught.
I do not support crimes of any sort, but much like illegally downloading music, selecting particular people to make "examples" of with over-the-top punishments is immoral. The punishment does not fit the crime here at all.
On another note, as a GT alumni, I find his prank absolutely hilarious. There is also a tradition at Georgia Tech of stealing a "T" off the top of the main administration building. These "T"s are massive; I believe they weigh close to 200 pounds. How anyone manages to scale a building and pull one down is beyond me. Especially with all the pressure sensitive equipment they have up there nowadays. The tradition is supposedly banned since someone can get hurt, but a guy managed to pull it off last year, and the whole school thought it was fantastic.