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31 Dec 2013, 11:00 am by Kenneth J. Vanko
John, Russell, and I discussed the CFAA prosecution of activist Aaron Swartz on our Fairly Competing podcast early this year. [read post]
30 Dec 2013, 10:35 am by Ed Felten
The implications of this story will take years to unfold. (2) Aaron Swartz. [read post]
27 Dec 2013, 8:02 am by Walter Olson
” The most commented-on posts were that one, “Loyalty Oaths with Religious Affirmations,” and “What the Aaron Swartz case says about our justice system. [read post]
25 Dec 2013, 4:00 pm by Rainey Reitman
It was also a year we lost a beloved friend and activist, Aaron Swartz. [read post]
25 Dec 2013, 2:34 pm by Hanni Fakhoury
For EFF, 2013 started on a tragic note when our friend, the gifted activist, coder, and Pioneer Aaron Swartz committed suicide in January. [read post]
23 Dec 2013, 7:29 pm by Clark
From Ted Kennedy who killed a woman and yet is toasted as a "lion of liberalism", to George Bush who did his share of party drugs (and my share, and your share, and your share…) while young yet let other youngsters rot in jail for the exact same excesses instead of waving his royal wand of pardoning, to thousand of well-paid NSA employees who put the Stasi to shame in their ruthless destruction of our rights, to the Silicon Valley CEOs who buy vacation houses with the money they make forging… [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 4:49 pm by Parker Higgins
The relevance of the novel is underscored by the poignant afterword written by Aaron Swartz just months before his death. [read post]
10 Dec 2013, 6:14 am by aallwash
Past recipients include Aaron Swartz, awarded posthumously, Internet Activist, co-founder of Demand Progress (2013); Michele Timmons, Revisor of Statutes, Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes and Chair of the Drafting Committee for the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (2012); Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) (2011); the Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell Law School (2010); the Sunlight Foundation (2009); and Gary… [read post]
19 Nov 2013, 9:23 am by Raffaela Wakeman
 And the hackers’ motivation, according to the Reuters story, was to protest the prosecution of Aaron Swartz for hacking into an MIT network and stealing millions of journal articles from JSTOR. [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 1:47 pm by Parker Higgins
This weekend, people in at least 16 cities around the world will take part in hackathons in memory of Aaron Swartz, the free software developer, writer, and activist. [read post]
21 Oct 2013, 3:35 pm by Cyrus Farivar
The site’s founder, Gary Fung, said isoHunt wanted to avoid being archived by Archiveteam, a group of archivists that were behind the "Aaron Swartz Memorial JSTOR Liberator” and the digital archive of Geocities. [read post]
At EFF, we've long admired the organization's work; as one token of that, we invited co-founder Lawrence Lessig to give a keynote at this year's Pioneer Awards, and have given the award to founding board member James Boyle, and to Aaron Swartz who helped design the code layer of the licenses. [read post]
15 Oct 2013, 11:42 am by Cyrus Farivar
About nine months ago, the Internet lost one of its most beloved activists in Aaron Swartz. [read post]
24 Sep 2013, 1:06 pm by Richard Esguerra and Richard Esguerra
Professor Lessig and Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman also shared remarks on Aaron Swartz that reminded us all of his passion and brilliance—feelings inherently accompanied by a profound sense of loss, and even failure. [read post]
In 2008, Aaron Swartz and others began a pioneering campaign to liberate public documents from behind the PACER paywall. [read post]
18 Aug 2013, 4:40 pm by Orin Kerr
(Orin Kerr) During the debate over the Aaron Swartz case, one of the legal issues was whether Swartz had committed an unauthorized access under the CFAA when he changed his IP address to circumvent IP address blocking imposed by system administrators trying to keep Swartz off the network. [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 3:13 pm by Steve Matthews
"The report says that MIT never told the prosecutor that Aaron’s access was “unauthorized.""..." [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 3:13 pm by Steve Matthews
"The report says that MIT never told the prosecutor that Aaron’s access was “unauthorized. [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 8:30 am by Jon Brodkin
The US Secret Service yesterday released 104 pages from the file it kept on Aaron Swartz during his prosecution. [read post]
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]