Aqua Teen Hunger Force Banner on Building 10

Referencing the "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" bomb scare that resulted in the partial shutdown of Boston when authorities discovered signs with LEDs on them attached to various parts of the city, hackers dropped a banner over the front of Building 10 reading "This is a bomb [diagram of bomb]. This is not a bomb [diagram of character from the ATHF signs]." The banner was dropped during Campus Preview Weekend 2007 and removed early the next morning.
      • Early Friday morning during MIT Campus Preview Weekend 2007, hackers dropped a banner off the front of Building 10 reading "This is a bomb [diagram of bomb]. This is not a bomb [diagram of Mooninite cartoon character]. Is your ego satisfied? Brought to you by the MIT Bomb Squad." The banner was in reference to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force bomb scare of Jan. 31, in which electronic sculptures with the Mooninite characters were found attached to structures around Boston and assumed to be bombs planted by terrorists. The resulting fear shut down parts of the city as the Boston Police bomb squads removed the devices.

      Paper Air Planes in Lobby 10

      Several large paper airplanes appeared in Lobby 10 during CPW 2007, designed to look as if they had been folded from Athena header pages.

              Stoplight at MIT Medical

              During Campus Preview Weekend 2007, hackers turned the three round windows of MIT Medical into a stoplight. They could be controlled remotely via a large button installed on a nearby lamp-post, so that passerby could play their own games of "red light, green light. The red, yellow, and green lights respectively read "HACK," "PUNT," and "TOOL".

              • The stoplight hack at night as seen from right next to the MIT Media Lab.
              • Massachusetts Institute of Technology students turned the three round windows on MIT's Building E25 into a stoplight on April 15, 2007. The stoplight included a lightpost-mounted button that would allow passerby to play the game 'red light, green light.
                • A tour group from Burton-Conner Dorm visits the hack at 6:40AM, the morning it appeared.

                Don't Tell Your Dad

                Hackers dropped a banner off the front of MIT's Lobby 7 during Campus Preview Weekend 2007. The banner read "Don't Tell Your Dad." Perhaps it is a reference to the fact that some prefrosh (admitted but still prospective students) are away from home for the first time.

                • A police cruiser drives past Lobby 7 with the Don't Tell Your Dad banner hanging from the building.

                  Bridge Closed to Appease Godzilla

                  When a movie studio arranged to shut down the Massachusetts Avenue / Harvard Bridge for an entire Sunday, signs popped up around MIT redirecting traffic to detour routes. Some of those signs were electronic... and one of them got hacked. The sign reads, "Mass Ave Bridge Closed | Sunday 04/22/07 | To Appease Godzilla."