Aaron Swartz's embattled prosecuting attorney releases first statement, says conduct was 'appropriate' US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz is breaking the silence on her office’s prosecution of Aaron Swartz. After extending her sympathy to those affected by Swartz's death, Ortiz acknowledges that there was no evidence that the 25 year-old's efforts to mass-download public journal articles from the JSTOR repository was for personal financial gain. "At no point did this office ever seek... maximum penalties under the law." Ortiz adds that "at no time did this office ever seek - or ever tell Mr. At the time of his death, Swartz was facing a total of 13 felony charges, carrying a maximum penalty of over 30 years in jail and $1 million in fines. The full text of the statement can be found below: January 16, 2013STATEMENT OF UNITED STATES ATTORNEY CARMEN M.
Aaron Swartz's Legal Troubles Were Getting Worse in the Days Before His Suicide Though mental health experts caution that there is rarely ever one lone reason for suicide, information is emerging about how legal troubles were mounting for Internet activist Aaron Swartz in the weeks before his suicide on Friday. The Wall Street Journal's Spencer E. Ante, Anjali Athavaley, and Joe Palazzolo report this morning that lawyers defending him on 13 felony counts, including wire and computer fraud for breaking into and downloading MIT's academic journal database JSTOR, had failed to reach a plea bargain deal with Assistant U.S. Though The Journal cautions "the reasons why someone might take as drastic a step as killing himself are complex and rarely boil down to a simple trigger," Swartz's family, friends, and supporters on the Internet have blamed the criminal justice system for pushing Swartz's case too far. In addition to the stresses of the criminal case, Swartz worried about the financial burdens, too, his girlfriend Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman told The Journal.
My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved | Technology We used to have a fight about how much the internet would grieve if he died. I was right, but the last word you get in as the still living is a hollow thing, trailing off, as it does, into oblivion. I love Aaron. I loved Aaron. There are no words to can contain love, to cloth it in words is to kill it, to mummify it and hope that somewhere in the heart of a reader, they have the strength and the magic to resurrect it. I can only say I love him. On the last day I saw him, he grabbed me in the rain while my car was blocking the road and held me and said "I love you." When he was 20, he carried me through my divorce. He read to me and Ada compulsively; he read me a whole David Foster Wallace book. He loved my daughter so much it filled the room like a mist. More than anything, together we loved the world, with the kind of love that grips and tears. We were destroyed by the investigation, and by enduring so much together in the five years of the difficult love affair of difficult people.
The Aaron Swartz Hacking Case Has Been Dismissed By The US District Court The US District Court in Massachusetts has dismissed the case against Aaron Swartz. Swartz committed suicide on January 11 after an investigation into his involvement in the theft of digital documents from JSTOR, a journal archive. US Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz noted: In support of this dismissal, the government states that Mr. Information on his memorial service is available here. Marcia Hofmann at the Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote that this case is an example of draconian informations security laws gone horribly wrong: Over the past two years, Aaron was forced to devote much of his energy and resources to fighting a relentless and unjust felony prosecution brought by Justice Department attorneys in Massachusetts. Please remember that there are sources of help if you’re troubled including Reddit, The Suicide Prevention Lifeline, and those close to you.
“É crucial estarmos vigilantes” Publicamos a íntegra da entrevista que o hacker Aaron Swartz, morto na sexta-feira, deu ao Link em 2012 Por Tatiana de Mello Dias Publicamos a íntegra da entrevista que o hacker Aaron Swartz, morto na sexta-feira, deu ao ‘Link’ em 2012 SÃO PAULO – “A maneira como empresas controlam sutilmente as alavancas da democracia é uma das coisas mais importantes e assustadoras que estão acontecendo hoje”, escreveu Aaron Swartz ao Link em 2012. —- • Siga o ‘Link’ no Twitter, no Facebook, no Google+ no Tumblr e também no Instagram Swartz cometeu suicídio última sexta-feira, aos 26 anos. Como você aprendeu a programar? Como você conheceu Tim Berners-Lee (o criador da World Wide Web)? Qual foi o seu papel na criação do RSS 1.0? FOTO: Reprodução/Mashable Você também trabalhou com Lawrence Lessig, que rasgou vários elogios para você. O que você aprendeu com ele? Nos últimos anos, nós vimos várias leis duras antipirataria surgirem no mundo. O que mudou na sua vida desde que você foi acusado?
mment: How the government breaks up British families This is the story of Andy, a man who has had his family torn apart by the government. Despite being a British citizen, Andy didn't make enough money to be able to live with his wife, so his children had to be separated from their parents. It's not really a story about Andy – it's about us and the kind of country we want to live in, but Andy's story typifies it pretty well. You will have heard of the Conservative aspiration for tax breaks for married couples. It's in the coalition agreement and the midterm review. The government is very keen to show how pro-family it is. Last year, Theresa May did something fundamentally different with the immigration system. Andy fell into that category. Andy had also been diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis the year before and felt more confident with British healthcare if there was another occurrence. This entirely natural approach to life was clear evidence of suspicious activity in the broken mindset of the UK Border Agency (UKBA).
Two Days Before MIT and Cambridge Cops Arrested Aaron Swartz, Secret Service Took Over the Investigation The public story of Aaron Swartz’ now-tragic two year fight with the Federal government usually starts with his July 19, 2011 arrest. But that’s not when he was first arrested for accessing a closet at MIT in which he had a netbook downloading huge quantities of scholarly journals. He was first arrested on January 6, 2011 by MIT and Cambrige, MA cops. According to a suppression motion in his case, however two days before Aaron was arrested, the Secret Service took over the investigation. On the morning of January 4, 2011, at approximately 8:00 am, MIT personnel located the netbook being used for the downloads and decided to leave it in place and institute a packet capture of the network traffic to and from the netbook.4 Timeline at 6. According to the Secret Service, they get involved in investigations with: Significant economic or community impactParticipation of organized criminal groups involving multiple districts or transnational organizationsUse of schemes involving new technology
Aaron Swartz: husband of prosecutor criticises internet activist's family | Technology The husband of the US district attorney involved in the Aaron Swartz prosecution has publicly criticised the activist's family for accusing his wife of complicity in the suicide, amid claims the aggressive litigation was driven by their desire for a test case. Tom Dolan, an IBM executive married to Carmen Ortiz, used his Twitter account to attack the family of Swartz, who died on Friday. One tweet, posted on his @TomJDolan feed, said: "Truly incredible that in their own son's obit they blame others for his death and make no mention of the 6 month offer." His comments, made three days after Swartz's death, attracted outrage on social media. When asked about Dolan's tweet and whether it was appropriate, Christina Sterling, a spokeswoman for Ortiz, told the Guardian she had "no comment" to make at this time. His family have accused prosecutors and MIT officials of contributing to his death by pursuing a harsh array of charges for "an alleged crime that had no victims".
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Wikileaks claims Aaron Swartz was an ally and possible source, breaking anonymity Aaron Swartz died a week ago. A public memorial service in New York City will be held later today. You may have read much about Swartz's life in the interim, including his work at a young age on Reddit and the RSS specification, his political activism, and the overzealous prosecution that may have contributed to his suicide. The @Wikileaks Twitter account is one of two online outlets designated for official communication from WikiLeaks; the other is its home page. Due to the investigation into the Secret Service involvement with #AaronSwartz we have decided to disclose the following facts (1-3) — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 19, 2013 1. 2. 3. A caution: we can't say what this really means when it comes to Aaron Swartz. However, these tweets add up to an extraordinary statement from WikiLeaks itself. Here's an excerpt from WikiLeaks' policy on anonymity for sources (bolding ours): As far as we can ascertain, WikiLeaks has never revealed any of its sources.
Aaron Swartz, um dos criadores do RSS e do Reddit, morre aos 26 anos publicidade 12 de janeiro de 2013 • 14h00 • atualizado em 04 de Dezembro de 2013 às 16h25 Foto: Fred Benenson/Wikimedia Commons / Divulgação Aaron Swartz, um dos criadores do sistema RSS e do site Reddit, cometeu suicídio em Nova York na última sexta-feira, dia 11, aos 26 anos. A informação foi confirmada pelo tio e pelos advogados de Schwartz ao jornal The Tech. Ele foi encontrado em seu apartamento e, segundo o laudo médico, morreu por enforcamento. RSS, de co-autoria de Swartz aos 14 anos, é um recurso desenvolvido em linguagem XML que permite aos responsáveis por sites e blogs divulgarem notícias ou novidades. Swartz era conhecido por ser um ativista da internet e defensor ardente da liberdade na rede. Swartz havia sido indiciado em julho de 2011 por um júri por supostamente realizar um download massivo de documento do JSTOR, uma plataforma online de textos e artigos, e do MIT (Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts), com a intenção de distribuí-los.
Home networking explained, Part 5: Setting up a home router Editors' note: This post is part of an ongoing series. For the other parts, check out the related stories section below. It might seem like a daunting task to set up a new home router. But it doesn't have to be if you understand the most common way routers are managed: through the Web interface. The hardest part of using the Web interface is getting to it. Note: Almost all home routers on the market come with an Web interface, which is a Web page from which users can view, manage, and monitor the router's settings and features. In this post, I'll talk about how you can quickly set up any router by accessing its Web interface and manage it from any connected computer or even a tablet or smartphone. Let's start with the basics. 1. A Web browser is a software application designed for retrieving, presenting, and exchanging information resources on the Internet. Among the most popular browsers are Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Internet Explorer. 2. A. B. C. 3. 1.
MIT announces internal investigation into its role in Aaron Swartz's prosecution On Sunday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a statement on the untimely death of digital activist and pioneer Aaron Swartz, offering condolences to his friends and family and announcing an investigation into the university's role in his prosecution. "I will not attempt to summarize here the complex events of the past two years," writes MIT president L. Rafael Reif. "Now is a time for everyone involved to reflect on their actions, and that includes all of us at MIT." The investigation, led by Creative Commons and Free Software Foundation founding director Hal Abelson, a professor at the university, will be focused "a thorough analysis of MIT's involvement from the time that we first perceived unusual activity on our network in fall 2010 up to the present." Reif, who became president after Swartz's 2011 indictment, has "asked that this analysis describe the options MIT had and the decisions MIT made, in order to understand and to learn from the actions MIT took."