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New Yorker unveils open source whistleblower system designed by activist Aaron Schwartz
The New Yorker magazine on Wednesday unveiled a new online system for anonymous whistleblower tips, based on technology developed by the late Internet activist Aaron Swartz and a former hacker. The system called Strongbox was unveiled amid an uproar in the news media over the US government seizure of phone…
Anonymous says ‘a line was crossed’ with Aaron Swartz and takes down U.S. Sentencing Commission website
Hacking collective threatens to make public classified material Hacktivist group Anonymous said Saturday it had hijacked the website of the US Sentencing Commission in a brazen act of cyber-revenge for the death of internet freedom advocate Aaron Swartz. Swartz killed himself just over two weeks ago as he faced trial…
Mourners exchange fond memories and angry calls for justice at Aaron Swartz memorial service
It was fitting that a memorial service held Saturday for computer freedom activist Aaron Swartz, who killed himself on January 11 as he faced hacking charges, was open to all. In a spacious meeting room in the heart of New York’s East Village neighbourhood, friends, fellow activists and supporters of…
U.S. attorney defends handling of Aaron Swartz case as ‘appropriate’
A US prosecutor at the center of a controversy over the handling of a case involving an Internet activist who committed suicide has defended the government’s actions as “appropriate.” Assistant US Attorney Carmen Ortiz expressed regret over the death of Aaron Swartz, who was accused of illegally copying and distributing…
Debate intensifies over ‘draconian’ cyber crime laws after Aaron Swartz’s death
As funeral services were held for Internet activist Aaron Swartz, the debate intensified over what some called a “draconian” US computer crime law used by allegedly overzealous prosecutors. An online petition calling for the removal of the prosecutors in his case garnered more than 31,000 signatures Tuesday and some of…
Aaron Swartz’s mentor Lessig remembers him as ‘an icon, an ideal’
A mentor to online activist Aaron Swartz remembered him on Monday in an emotional interview with Democracy Now anchor Amy Goodman. “All of us think there are a thousand things we could have done,” Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig said. “A thousand things we could have done, and we have…
Activists and family blame suicide of Aaron Swartz on overzealous prosecution
Angry Internet activists mourned Sunday the loss of Aaron Swartz, a US programming prodigy who took his own life at just 26, weeks before he was due to go on trial for alleged computer fraud. “Aaron did more than almost anyone to make the Internet a thriving ecosystem for open…
Reddit cofounder and online activist Aaron Swartz dead at 26
Aaron Swartz, an online activist and founder of the wildly popular social network Reddit, has taken his own life at the age of 26. According to AlterNet, Swartz was facing legal difficulties and struggling with illness and depression. His attorney Michael Wolf confirmed the news to the MIT newspaper The…
Activist decries CISPA as ‘a Patriot Act for the Internet’
According to Internet activist Aaron Swartz, the proposed Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which passed the House of Representatives this week, is even worse than the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that was sidelined by a public outcry last winter. Swartz told Russia Today that whereas SOPA was…
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