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29 Jan 2013, 10:44 am by Shouvik Kumar Guha
A lively debate ensued in the blog following the unfortunate demise of Aaron Swartz, the young activist involved in issues surrounding copyright policy and technology freedom. [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]
24 Feb 2013, 8:08 am
Computer prodigy Aaron Swartz was facing 13 federal felony fraud charges and a 35-year prison term for downloading academic articles when he committed suicide last month. [read post]
19 May 2016, 10:17 am by Karen Gullo
“We have also urged Congress to adopt Aaron’s Law, named after late programmer and activist Aaron Swartz, who faced CFAA charges. [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]
22 Sep 2020, 4:19 pm by Jason Kelley
These costs add up quickly, and have been criticized by open-government activists such as the late Aaron Swartz and Public.Resource.Org. [read post]
3 Jun 2021, 10:57 am by Andrew Crocker
We remember the tragic and unjust results of the CFAA's misuse, such as the death of Aaron Swartz, and we will continue to fight to ensure that computer crime laws no longer chill security research, journalism, and other novel and interoperable uses of technology that ultimately benefit all of us. [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]
4 Nov 2015, 6:03 am by Orin Kerr
I was less impressed by how the podcast covers the CFAA outside the Keys case, and in particular its coverage of the Aaron Swartz case. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 12:27 pm by Dave Maass
EFF has long criticized how stretched interpretations of the federal Computer Fraud & Abuse Act have resulted in the prosecution of computer scientists, such as Aaron Swartz. [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 6:26 am by Robert B. Milligan
Representative Lofgren has proposed an amendment to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after Aaron Swartz’s untimely death. [read post]
14 Jan 2015, 2:15 pm by David Kravets
During next week's State of the Union address, the president is set to publicly urge increased prison time and other changes to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act—the statute that was used to prosecute Internet activist Aaron Swartz before he committed suicide in 2013. [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 6:26 am by Robert B. Milligan
Representative Lofgren has proposed an amendment to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after Aaron Swartz’s untimely death. [read post]
11 Apr 2014, 8:49 am by David Kravets
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]
25 Jul 2016, 9:32 am by Jennifer Baker
Love is alleged to have been involved in the hack known as #OpLastResort, which targeted the US Army, the US Federal Reserve, the FBI, NASA, and the Missile Defense Agency in retaliation over the suicide, while awaiting trial, of Aaron Swartz. [read post]
14 Apr 2014, 4:10 pm by David Kravets
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]
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]
9 Aug 2016, 11:30 am by Ana Acosta and Elliot Harmon
Many people reading this remember the tragic story of Aaron Swartz. [read post]
28 Sep 2015, 3:17 pm by Nadia Kayyali
A tragic example is the misguided prosecution of activist Aaron Swartz under the CFAA. [read post]