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1 Feb 2013, 7:15 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
On January 11, 2013, facing decades in prison on trumped up charges, my partner, Aaron Swartz, made the tragic choice to take his own life. [read post]
29 Jan 2013, 4:05 pm by Jennifer Granick
  Because of the tragic and untimely death of Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide while awaiting trial on charges he violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) by mass downloading academic journal articles, we have an opportunity to amend the CFAA, a federal law that interferes with important and socially beneficial computer security research. [read post]
29 Jan 2013, 2:45 pm by Jeralyn
Via Wired, Congressmen Darryl Issa and Elijah Cummings have written this letter to the Department of Justice asking for information on the Aaron Swartz prosecution. [read post]
29 Jan 2013, 10:44 am by Shouvik Kumar Guha
Swaraj came up with a moving post about Swartz’s achievements and speculating whether available information may indicate that the legal and prosecutorial pressures being piled on Swartz by the US Department of Justice were in any way responsible for his suicide. [read post]
28 Jan 2013, 6:09 am by The Charge
In the recent matter of Aaron Swartz, he was accused of appropriating scholarly documents in order to make them accessible to anyone who desired the information. [read post]
28 Jan 2013, 3:00 am by David Oscar Markus
This infiltration was achieved through the use of the *same tactics which lead to Aaron Swartz' death. [read post]
27 Jan 2013, 7:29 am
Attorney's office, run by Carmen Ortiz, chose to make an example of Aaron Swartz, a new report says." [read post]
26 Jan 2013, 4:04 pm by Jeralyn
Sentencing Commission in retaliation for the suicide of Aaron Swartz and in protest of the overly harsh federal sentencing guidelines and policies of the... [[ This is a content summary only. [read post]
26 Jan 2013, 1:00 pm by Megan Geuss
ZDNet reports that the site was replaced with a message from Anonymous citing the death of Aaron Swartz as the motivation for the attack. [read post]
26 Jan 2013, 5:57 am by Wells Bennett
 From the site’s report—which elsewhere says the attack was intended as retaliation for the prosecution of Aaron Swartz:  The hacktivist group Anonymous hacked the US federal sentencing website early Saturday, using the page to make a brazen and boisterous declaration of “war” on the U.S. government. [read post]
25 Jan 2013, 4:00 am by Simon Fodden
In reading about Aaron Swartz after his death, I came across a website/program, Image Atlas, he built for his friend Taryn Simon, as part of an art exhibit. [read post]
24 Jan 2013, 9:01 pm by John Dean
Aaron Swartz’s girlfriend Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, however, has said she is “absolutely confident” that Swartz took his life because of the treatment he was getting from the Boston United States Attorney’s Office, a reaction shared by Swartz’s parents. [read post]
24 Jan 2013, 7:51 am by David Friedman
One reason to do so is to persuade the defendant to plead guilty to one or more of the charges in exchange for the implicit promise of a shorter sentence, presumably what was happening in the Swartz case. [read post]
23 Jan 2013, 12:06 pm by Raffaela Wakeman
Here’s Jennifer Martinez of The Hill on the plans; and if you haven’t read the Times‘ piece on how MIT caught Aaron Swartz while using its computer network to download 4.8 million documents, do so. [read post]
22 Jan 2013, 2:58 pm by Jessica Mendelson
Following up on my post discussing the matter, I spoke with Colin O’Keefe of LXBN regarding how legislative changes may soon be coming to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act following the tragic death of entrepreneur and internet activist Aaron Swartz. [read post]
22 Jan 2013, 2:58 pm by Jessica Mendelson
Following up on my post discussing the matter, I spoke with Colin O’Keefe of LXBN regarding how legislative changes may soon be coming to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act following the tragic death of entrepreneur and internet activist Aaron Swartz. [read post]