Spinoff companies
- Akamai founded in late 1990's by MIT professor and students
- business area is "global Internet content delivery"
- some Akamai hosts on MIT's network:
a-18-7-0-7.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com -
a-18-7-0-14.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com
IP addresses: 18.7.0.7 through 18.7.0.14
apparently run web servers and sshd 1.2.27
- MIT owns 496,152 shares of Akamai stock, once worth $171M
- currently the shares are worth about $35M
- breakins to Akamai hosts could affect the stock value
- (admittedly, could affect the stock value in either direction)
- get involved with network-security issues for these hosts?
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