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23 Apr 2014, 3:25 pm
EFF's own birth began with an ignorant and fearful crackdown marshalled against hackers in the United States; politically-motivated prosecutions of techno-activists like Aaron Swartz continue to this day. [read post]
14 Apr 2014, 4:10 pm
He says he lost 17 pounds, too, following his 2012 hacking conviction, which was viewed as a test of the reaches of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the same statute Aaron Swartz was being prosecuted for before his 2013 suicide death. [read post]
11 Apr 2014, 8:49 am
The case against Auernheimer, who has often been in solitary confinement for obtaining and disclosing personal data of about 140,000 iPad owners from a publicly available AT&T website, was seen as a test case on how far the authorities could go under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the same law that federal prosecutors were invoking against Aaron Swartz. [read post]
4 Apr 2014, 1:00 pm
Swartz: But as a citizen, is it your field? [read post]
31 Mar 2014, 4:38 pm
Follow up to previous postings on Aaron Swartz, via the Boston Globe - More than a year after Swartz killed himself rather than face prosecution, questions about MIT’s handling of the hacking case persist, By Marcella Bombardieri. [read post]
28 Mar 2014, 8:35 am
The Internet’s Own Boy documents the case of Internet pioneer and activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide in 2013 at age 26 while facing computer fraud charges for downloading millions of copyrighted academic journal articles. [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 4:21 pm
Additionally, in 2013, Representative Zoe Lofgren introduced Aaron’s Law, named after the political hackvist Aaron Swartz, to reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. [read post]
27 Feb 2014, 12:00 pm
The amount is confidential under the terms of the settlement, but it will be dedicated to supporting EFF's work on open access, a cause of special importance to Lessig's friend, Aaron Swartz, a technologist and activist who took his own life in early 2013. [read post]
19 Feb 2014, 5:33 pm
Using Aaron Swartz’s PACER data, I was able to put together a database of court cases, and it grew from there.What’s innovative about Plainsite? [read post]
11 Feb 2014, 5:20 pm
The late Internet activist Aaron Swartz famously said, when describing how the Internet defeated the SOPA blacklist bill, that: “We won this fight because everyone made themselves the hero of their own story. [read post]
10 Feb 2014, 3:22 pm
Tal como lo señaló el desaparecido líder activista Aaron Swartz, ese día “nos hicimos héroes de nuestra propia historia. [read post]
6 Feb 2014, 7:26 am
Lessig sometimes calls the march “Aaron’s walk” and timed it to begin on the one-year anniversary of Swartz’s death. [read post]
23 Jan 2014, 9:44 pm
But that’s the same statute many blame for crushing Aaron Swartz. [read post]
22 Jan 2014, 7:18 pm
Como lo estableció Aaron Swartz, “nos hicimos héroes de nuestra propia historia . [read post]
22 Jan 2014, 1:58 pm
As Aaron Swartz put it, everybody "made themselves the hero of their own story." [read post]
18 Jan 2014, 5:36 am
There are also lots of signs that things need to change, and copyright issues are still of serious concern: Only a year ago Aaron Swartz was hounded to death by zealous prosecutors fulfilling a copyright maximalist agenda. [read post]
15 Jan 2014, 8:17 am
In my post about the prosecution and death of Aaron Swartz, I argued that Swartz' community showed such privilege in its reaction to his prosecution, seeing some sort of singular conspiracy where others saw the banal grinding of the system's unfeeling wheels. [read post]
11 Jan 2014, 1:50 pm
” Bob Swartz, Aaron's father, has been very vocal about implicating MIT in the suicide of his son, as well. [read post]
10 Jan 2014, 6:02 pm
One year ago, we lost Aaron Swartz, a dear friend and a leader in the fight for a free and open Internet. [read post]
10 Jan 2014, 8:50 am
In January 2006, EFF filed our first lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of NSA mass surveillance.In January 2012, the Internet rose up to protest and defeat SOPA, legislation that sought to censor the Internet in the name of copyright enforcement.And in January of last year, we lost a dear friend and fierce digital rights advocate, Aaron Swartz. [read post]
