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4 Jun 2021, 3:46 am
This isn’t to say that what Van Buren did was cool, as it clearly was an abuse of his authority to access the police license plate database to sell for cash, but letting Van Buren skate on this count means that others, say someone like Aaron Swartz or you, gets to skate as well. [read post]
14 Oct 2011, 8:00 am
* Aaron Swartz is being prosecuted for a mass download from the JSTOR database [read post]
19 Nov 2013, 9:23 am
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]
23 Feb 2015, 8:34 am
But the feds have stretched and distorted ambiguous federal computer statutes to prosecute the likes of Lori Drew (federally prosecuted for creating a fake MySpace account to mock her daughter's rival), Aaron Swartz (prosecuted for mass-downloading scholarly articles to make them free to all), or the troll Weev (prosecuted for guessing URLs correctly to demonstrate a serious flaw in AT&T's online security). [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 12:03 pm
News of Aaron Swartz’s suicide has MIT looking into its role in his prosecution. [read post]
23 Dec 2013, 7:29 pm
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]
5 Jul 2012, 11:48 pm
Reposted from Crooked Timber as part of an Open Data Symposium with Henry Farrell (blogger at Crooked Timber) Steven Berlin Johnson (author of Emergence, Where Good Ideas Come From, and the forthcoming Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age) Tom Lee (director of Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation) Clay Shirky (author of Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus_) Tom Slee (author of No-One Makes You Shop at Walmart) Victoria Stodden (assistant professor of statistics at… [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 4:30 am
In turn, this causes considerable fear in the community and, most recently, the suicide of an accused, Aaron Swartz. [read post]
9 Jun 2021, 7:58 am
., the tragic death of Aaron Swartz). [read post]
29 Jul 2011, 4:52 am
Circuit: A ‘Breakout’ case: Atari Games Corp v Oman (Patent Arcade) US Copyright – Lawsuits and strategic steps Puffin Software – BattleLore board-game rightsholder files copyright infringement and unfair competition suit against Puffin Software over computerised version of the game (Patent Arcade) Warner Bros – Hotfile to sue Warner Bros. for abusing its anti-piracy tool (TorrentFreak) Sega – Case analysis of trade mark and copyright infringement case Sega… [read post]
4 Aug 2022, 11:43 am
The conviction was eventually vacated, but the prosecution itself was seen as a low point (along with the infamous Aaron Swartz prosecution) for overzealous prosecutors pursuing scraping claims under the CFAA. [read post]
13 Feb 2013, 7:22 am
Reacting to outrage over Aaron Swartz' prosecution and suicide, a Boston Globe columnist defends the government and tells us that "widespread revulsion directed at the US attorney’s office is overreach by cyber-bullies." [read post]
18 Jan 2021, 8:15 am
— This commentary was scheduled for broadcast on WAMC Northeast Report, on January 19, 2021. 2020 presidential election 2020 presidential election Aaron Swartz Abortion accountability ACLU Adlai Stevenson Affirmative Action Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan Africa African-American women African-Americans Air al-Qaeda Albany Alexander the Great Alito Alt-right American ideals American individualism American influence on … [read post]
5 Dec 2006, 2:01 pm
As explained by Aaron Swartz, the community becomes somewhat insular and self-focused: insiders account for the vast majority of the edits. [read post]
20 Mar 2018, 1:16 pm
And the CFAA was the blunt instrument used to prosecute the late Aaron Swartz for obtaining access “without authorization and in excess of authorized access” to JSTOR through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s network to download a large number of 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]
22 Mar 2022, 2:00 am
Like many young people, Zach Latta went to a school that didn't teach any computer classes. [read post]
2 Dec 2020, 11:07 am
(Though not mentioned at argument and cited only in passing in the petitioner’s brief, it bears mention that the same provision of the CFAA was among the charges prosecutors brought against Aaron Swartz, the young computer researcher and open-source activist who killed himself after being charged for using an MIT computer to mass-download papers from JSTOR.) [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 1:41 pm
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