Aaron Swartz, a brilliant person, a sad ending

[Shawn]

Aaron was a great hacker who fought for individual/information
freedom. Anonymous defaced MIT's website with Aaron's article[1]. I
wrote an article for dedicate to him[2]( I sent this one to
mailinglist but still waiting for approval).

MIT was the origin of computer/bio hackers. Maybe, not anymore....

[1] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/immoral

[2] http://hfg-resources.googlecode.com/files/d3_0x02_security_shit_in_qa-work.txt

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Tom Balazs <tom123online at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aaron Swartz, computer programmer and activist, committed suicide on January
> 11th, aged 26
> -
> http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21569674-aaron-swartz-computer-programmer-and-activist-committed-suicide-january-11th-aged-26-aaron
>
> Swartz was well-known in technology circles for helping develop the RSS web
> feed format and the popular site Reddit, among other accomplishments. At the
> time of his death, he was facing 13 felony charges and up to 50 years in
> prison: Prosecutors had accused him of using MIT's network to download too
> many scholarly articles from an academic database called JSTOR.
> - Swartz's friends and family have said they believe he was driven to his
> death by a justice system that hounded him needlessly over an alleged crime
> with no real victims. "[He was] forced by the government to spend every
> fiber of his being on this damnable, senseless trial," his partner Taren
> Stinebrickner-Kauffman said at the memorial, "with no guarantee that he
> could exonerate himself at the end of it."
> http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-did-the-justice-system-target-aaron-swartz-20130123
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-internet-activist-dies-at-26.html?_r=0
>
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regards
Shawn