Aaron Swartz

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Somebody Hacked The Fed During The Super Bowl

Adam Clark Estes | Nextgov | February 6, 2013

Two days after Anonymous bragged about its latest government website breach and data dump, the United States Federal Reserve admitted that it had been hacked and robbed. Read More »

Somebody, Probably Anonymous, Hacked The Fed During The Super Bowl

Adam Clark Estes | The Atlantic Wire | February 5, 2013

Two days after Anonymous bragged about its latest government website breach and data dump, the United States Federal Reserve admitted that it had been hacked and robbed. "The Federal Reserve system is aware that information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product," a Fed spokesperson told Reuters... Read More »

Stallman, Andreessen, Swartz Among Internet Hall Of Fame’s Latest Inductees

Nur Bremmen | Memeburn | June 27, 2013

It’s easy to forget that there was a time before the internet, but everything we take for granted now [...] comes off the back of seriously pioneering work. Read More »

Steal This Research Paper! (You Already Paid for It.)

Michael Mechanic | Mother Jones | September 1, 2013

Before Aaron Swartz became the open-access movement's first martyr, Michael Eisen was blowing up the lucrative scientific publishing industry from within. Read More »

The Day We Fought Back

Rainey Reitman | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) | February 11, 2014

[...] The groups that organized this action have long been pushing hard for real surveillance reform. But we knew that the time was ripe—that the Snowden leaks, unrelenting media pressure, grassroots activism, and even pressure from within Congress—were creating a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to give the public—worldwide—the chance to voice its opposition to mass spying. [...] Read More »

The FOIA Machine: Software Saves Reporters From Government Hell

Klint Finley | Wired | July 22, 2013

They say freedom isn’t free. And that’s certainly true of FOIA requests. Read More »

The Internet’s Own Boy Review: Remembering—And Honoring—Aaron Swartz

Sam Machkovech | Ars Technica | July 19, 2014

Documentary overcomes bias to tell reddit co-founder's tragic, remarkable story...

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The New Aaron Swartz Documentary At Sundance

Tim Wu | The New Yorker | January 21, 2014

“The Internet’s Own Boy,” a documentary about the life and death of Aaron Swartz, premièred on Monday at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received a standing ovation. The life of Swartz as a coder and an Internet thinker is well known. [...] The documentary, shot in the course of that year, gives us relatively little new information about the legal controversy, but it is deeply revealing about who Swartz was. Read More »

The Open Access Week Community To Hit Its Stride At This Year's Event

Luis Ibáñez | opensource.com | October 21, 2013

A celebration of the open access movement, Open Access week hosts events that are aimed at highlighting how open access has transformed the landscape of society due to increased access to scientific research. Read More »

The Public Domain Still Needs Idealism

Anna Wiener | New Republic | January 15, 2016

In the current startup universe, there’s still a lot of chatter about changing the world, an objective that has become so cliché—and ridiculed—that it’s easy to forget that those voicing this desire genuinely, vehemently believe it. From the outside, the prospect of a world-changing software product is either very exciting or completely delusional, depending on who’s talking...Idealism about technology as a democratizing force currently looks a lot like defense: protecting digital civil liberties, and fighting against further erosion. This is the side that Justin Peters is most committed to documenting in his book The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet, a partial biography of the late activist and Open Access advocate...

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The Truth About Aaron Swartz’s “Crime”

Alex Stamos | Unhandled Exception | January 12, 2013

In short, Aaron Swartz was not the super hacker breathlessly described in the Government’s indictment and forensic reports, and his actions did not pose a real danger to JSTOR, MIT or the public. He was an intelligent young man who found a loophole that would allow him to download a lot of documents quickly. This loophole was created intentionally by MIT and JSTOR, and was codified contractually in the piles of paperwork turned over during discovery.
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To Make Open Access Work, We Need To Do More Than Liberate Journal Articles

Dan Cohen | Wired | January 15, 2013

In the days since the tragedy of Aaron Swartz’s suicide, many academics have been posting open-access PDFs of their research. It’s an act of solidarity with Swartz’s crusade to liberate (in most cases publicly funded) knowledge for all to read. Read More »

Unexpected Martyr For The Open-Access Movement

Jon Marcus | Times Higher Education | January 24, 2013

The suicide of a radical advocate of open access to academic research has elevated the topic to the forefront of conversation in the US, and could ultimately widen the availability of documents and prompt copyright reform. Read More »

US Cybercrime Laws Being Used To Target Security Researchers

Tom Brewster | TheGuardian.com | May 29, 2014

Security researchers say they have been threatened with indictment for their work investigating internet vulnerabilities...

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We’ve Learned The Wrong Lessons From Aaron Swartz

Radley Balko | The Washington Post | August 11, 2014

Over at the (highly recommended) Popehat blog, Ken White reviews the new documentary about the late Internet activist Aaron Swartz and in doing so waxes eloquently on privilege, justice and sketpicism. Read More »