LXer: Anonymous hacks MIT sites to post Aaron Swartz tribute, call to arms

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LXer: Anonymous hacks MIT sites to post Aaron Swartz tribute, call to arms

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01-15-2013, 03:01 AM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,357 Rep:	LXer: Anonymous hacks MIT sites to post Aaron Swartz tribute, call to arms Published at LXer: Hackers from Anonymous on Sunday claimed credit for posting messages to Massachusetts Institute of Technology Web sites commemorating the life of RSS co-founder Aaron Swartz and calling for an overhaul of computer crime laws. Swartz, 26, was an outspoken advocate of open information and had been embroiled in a legal battle over digital copyright for scraping articles off of the JSTOR academic article database. He hanged himself Friday at his apartment in Brooklyn. Read More...

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