Aaron Swartz, a brilliant person, a sad ending

[Marmor, Eli]

I was in touch with Aaron a long time ago, when he was much younger.
The connection was David Efergan (RIP) who had been a friend of me since we
were kids.
After his marriage, David moved to Chicago, where his wife grew up.
David helped my company, and even invested (though very minor).
One day he told me about a wiz-kid that prays (or his parents) with him in
the same synagogue in Chicago.
The stories amazed me - how a so young boy takes apart in leading projects
and standards in the Internet industry.
One of the expertize fields of Aaron was a field that I planned to add to
the abilities of my technology, so it was clear for David that Aaron and me
must talk about it.
Meanwhile David passed away and was buried here in Kfar-Saba, and now Aaron
is not with us too.

2013/1/24 Shawn <citypw at gmail.com>

> 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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>
> --
> GNU powered it...
> GPL protect it...
> God blessing it...
>
> regards
> Shawn
>
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