I would debunk this piece by piece, but it's more efficient to make my point with a single example.
>"Local law enforcement, yes--because, as the report notes, they did not have the in-house expertise to figure out what was going on."
Your argument, on Hacker News, which you find perfectly plausible, is that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology lacked sufficient in-house expertise to diagnose a mass download via curl?
It wasn't the downloading that was hard to diagnose; they figured out pretty quickly what was being downloaded. What caused the difficulty was the tactics that were used to circumvent the normal controls on downloading and usage of the network. I do find it plausible (though very disappointing) that the MIT administration did not have in-house expertise in the low-level diagnosis necessary to deal with that. How familiar are you with MIT?
>"Local law enforcement, yes--because, as the report notes, they did not have the in-house expertise to figure out what was going on."
Your argument, on Hacker News, which you find perfectly plausible, is that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology lacked sufficient in-house expertise to diagnose a mass download via curl?
Ladies and gentlemen, I rest my case.