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Hackers take over sentencing commission website
WASHINGTON (AP) — The hacker-activist group Anonymous says it hijacked the website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission to avenge the death of Aaron Swartz, an Internet activist who committed suicide. The FBI is investigating. The website of the...
Tags: Computer Crime, FBI, Crime, Law and Justice, Reddit Inc., Anonymous (internet groups)
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Aaron Swartz: North Shore teachers recall Internet prodigy
Many people in Highland Park, where Aaron Swartz was raised, continue to struggle with his suicide at age 26 earlier this month as he faced federal prosecution for downloading millions of academic articles without authorization. "He was challenging in...
Tags: Prosecution, Teaching and Learning, Chicago Tribune, Highland Park (Brooklyn, New York), Teachers
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Documents in case against Internet activist Aaron Swartz to be released
ReutersBOSTON - Previously sealed documents in the criminal hacking case against deceased Internet activist Aaron Swartz were ordered released Monday by a U.S. judge. Swartz, who was raised in Highland Park, committed suicide in January before going to trial...Tags: Computer Crime, Witnesses, Punishment, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice
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Aaron Swartz is gone, but his story refuses to go away. Why?
This post has been updated. See below for details.By now, Web users should know about Aaron Swartz, because it's getting hard not to hear about him. The 26-year-old computer prodigy helped develop RSS and Reddit; he was also a folk hero to the open Web movement, which argues for greater information...Tags: U.S. Senate, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Social Media, Freedom of Information Act, Prosecution
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U.S. House watchdogs want explanation of Aaron Swartz prosecution
This post has been updated and corrected. See the note below for details.Two of Congress' top watchdogs have asked the Justice Department to explain its prosecution of Aaron Swartz, a popular hacktivist who committed suicide Jan. 11. Swartz, 26, was facing the possibility of years in prison for downloading millions of...Tags: Elijah E. Cummings, Prosecution, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. Department of Justice, Los Angeles Times
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Aaron Swartz dies at 26; Internet folk hero founded Reddit
Aaron Swartz, who co-founded Reddit and became an Internet folk hero for fighting to make online content free to the public, committed suicide Friday. He was 26. Swartz hanged himself in his Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment, said a statement released by his...
Tags: The New York Times, Tim Berners-Lee, Science and Technology, Social Media, Computer Networking and Internet
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Congress' horse-and-buggy computer laws
As martyrs go, Aaron Swartz was an extraordinary example of the breed. A computer programming genius, he had helped develop the social networking site Reddit and became known as a leading advocate for easy and free information sharing on the Web. When...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Social Media, Trials, Prisons, Career and Workplace
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Aaron Swartz's suicide continues to ripple through Congress
Aaron Swartz may change the Internet yet again, even in death, with the help of lawmakers who have expressed a fondness for breaking the law. At a Washington, D.C., memorial Monday night, members of Congress and loved ones gathered to remember Swartz,...
Tags: Alan Grayson, Prosecution, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Los Angeles Times, Mark Zuckerberg
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'Anonymous' hacks government site to protest hacktivist's death
A collective of hackers known as Anonymous commandeered a Department of Justice website Saturday to protest what it called the harsh treatment by government prosecutors of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide this month. The hackers...
Tags: Prosecution, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Crime, FBI, Crime, Law and Justice
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After Jody Sherman death, tech community seeks dialogue on suicide
Silicon Beach is mourning the death of entrepreneur and Ecomom co-founder Jody Sherman this week. Sherman, 47, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said. Since his death Monday, several L.A. tech bloggers, friends and venture capitalists...
Tags: Social Media, Computer Networking and Internet, Suicide, Media Industry
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Free research! Swartz's cause lives on
Research wants to be free. Not free to perform. Quality academic research requires the sustained efforts of well-paid personnel and, at times, the use of expensive equipment. Not free to archive. Storing the results and analysis of peer-reviewed...
Tags: Economic Indicator, Consumer Confidence, Newspaper and Magazine, Colleges and Universities, Education
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Webliography: Research wants to be free
Change of SubjectUPDATED TUESDAY MORNING The public directly and indirectly subsidizes an awful lot of academic research on the theory that knowledge is an important public good. So the public should have access to it! We should be able to arrange the......
Jan 26, 2013
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Jan 26, 2013
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Feb 1, 2013
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Jan 17, 2013
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Jan 14, 2013
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