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 <tom123onl...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- GNU powered it... GPL protect it... God blessing it... regards Shawn _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
