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12 Aug 2013, 3:49 pm
Kevin Poulsen at Wired reports that the first 104 pages of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service files are available now, with a lot more to come, as a result of court ordered release. [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 6:30 am by Kristin Bergman
The attention given to the irrationality of such a high sentence--especially as compared with lower sentences for dangerous crimes like bank robbery and manslaughter--makes Brown's sentence reminiscent of the sentence faced by Aaron Swartz. [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 5:30 am by David Oscar Markus
Here's a little snippet of a really great article:Over the last year or so, a number of high-profile stories have fostered discussion and analysis of prosecutorial power, discretion and accountability: the prosecution and subsequent suicide of Internet activist Aaron Swartz; the Obama administration's unprecedented prosecution of whistleblowers; the related Department of Justice investigations into the sources of leaks that have raised First Amendment concerns; and aggressive… [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 4:02 am by Bruce E. Boyden
The issue is significant because, in the wake of several controversial prosecutions (Lori Drew, Aaron Swartz, Andrew Auernheimer (a/k/a “weev”)), there is considerable pressure building to amend the CFAA. [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 4:02 am by Bruce Boyden
The issue is significant because, in the wake of several controversial prosecutions (Lori Drew, Aaron Swartz, Andrew Auernheimer (a/k/a “weev”)), there is considerable pressure building to amend the CFAA. [read post]
1 Aug 2013, 12:48 pm by Ilya Somin
UPDATE: Some readers might cite the Aaron Swartz prosecution as evidence that minor violations of the CFAA do get prosecuted. [read post]
1 Aug 2013, 7:16 am by Stewart Baker
(Stewart Baker) The prosecutorial discretion built into the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is already controversial in the blogosphere, where leftie admirers of Aaron Swartz and libbie opponents of prosecutorial discretion have made common cause against the law. [read post]
31 Jul 2013, 9:27 am by Raffaela Wakeman
MIT released a report on its role in the prosecution of Aaron Swartz, the internet freedom advocate who broke into the Institute’s campus and network, and stole millions of files from JSTOR. [read post]
30 Jul 2013, 10:50 am by Jeralyn
MIT has released a 182 page report on its actions in the Aaron Swartz case. [read post]
30 Jul 2013, 9:26 am
Looking back on the Aaron Swartz case, the world didn't see leadership. [read post]
30 Jul 2013, 8:20 am by Orin Kerr
Looking back on the Aaron Swartz case, the world didn’t see leadership. [read post]
19 Jul 2013, 6:07 am by Ed Felten
What made MIT great is the way it made itself a mecca for the Aaron Swartzes of the world. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 1:41 pm
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27 Jun 2013, 8:07 am
Wales and I met for lunch the day after the 26-year-old computer programmer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz killed himself. [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 5:47 pm by Robert B. Milligan
”  Additionally, with the nickname “Aaron’s Law,” they also seek to limit what some see as the CFAA’s tendency to allow for overzealous prosecution that they claim characterized Aaron Swartz’s case. [read post]
25 Jun 2013, 1:52 pm by Lisa A. Mazzie
Time Magazine featured on its June 24 cover three “hacktivists” it labeled “The Informers”: Snowden, Bradley Manning, and the late Aaron Swartz. [read post]
24 Jun 2013, 4:12 am by Timothy P. Flynn
  Like the cases of Julian Assange and Aaron Swartz, Snowden's revelations about the federal government's snooping is becoming a digital clarion call.Snowden, a former NSA contractor, made some significant disclosures about what the NSA has been doing, to the Guardian newspaper in London earlier in the month. [read post]