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Quinn Norton: "It wasn't Carmen Ortiz that hounded Aaron to death, it was Steve Heymann. And the system that helped him do it: that was all of us." https://twi

by pliu 14y ago

Quinn Norton: "It wasn't Carmen Ortiz that hounded Aaron to death, it was Steve Heymann. And the system that helped him do it: that was all of us." https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/290204205124304896 https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/290204205124304896 And Tim Carmody: "FWIW, Carmen Ortiz just runs the US Attorney's office in MA. Stephen Heymann is the Assistant US Attorney going hard after Aaron Swartz." https://twitter.com/tcarmody/status/290192055488094209 https://twitter.com/tcarmody/status/290192055488094209

creamyhorror 14y ago
More info: Aaron wasn’t so lucky with the JSTOR matter. The case was picked up by Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Heymann in Boston, the cybercrime prosecutor who won a record 20-year prison stretch for TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez. Heymann indicted Aaron on 13 counts of wire fraud, computer intrusion and reckless damage. -- Wired, http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/aaron-swartz/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/aaron-swartz/ In the area of computer crime, Mr. Heymann: - Jointly brought the first federal prosecution of a juvenile computer hacker, who had electronically disabled a critical computer servicing the control tower of a regional airport. - Supervised the prosecution of the first software pirate to be charged with free distribution of copyrighted software over the Internet. -- http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/digitaldiscovery/biosfc.htm http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/digitaldiscovery/biosfc.htm Not that much public info available on the guy.
erichocean 14y ago
Carmen Ortiz was the person in charge of either (a) not employing people like Stephen Heymann, or (b) overseeing their activities better. Of course, Stephen Heymann should also bear the blame. But we don't help society when we refuse to find those in charge responsible for the things they actually are responsible for.
- erichocean 14y ago
  BTW, here's her position on the case (via the NYT)[1]: Carmen M. Ortiz, a United States attorney, pressed on, saying that “stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars.” i.e. she was in full support of the trial against Aaron. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-internet-activist-dies-at-26.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-in...
ealloc 14y ago
The equivalent petition for Steve Heymann: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-attorney-steve-heymann/RJKSY2nb https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-...

by pliu 14y ago

creamyhorror 14y ago

More info: Aaron wasn’t so lucky with the JSTOR matter. The case was picked up by Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Heymann in Boston, the cybercrime prosecutor who won a record 20-year prison stretch for TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez. Heymann indicted Aaron on 13 counts of wire fraud, computer intrusion and reckless damage. -- Wired, http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/aaron-swartz/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/aaron-swartz/ In the area of computer crime, Mr. Heymann: - Jointly brought the first federal prosecution of a juvenile computer hacker, who had electronically disabled a critical computer servicing the control tower of a regional airport. - Supervised the prosecution of the first software pirate to be charged with free distribution of copyrighted software over the Internet. -- http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/digitaldiscovery/biosfc.htm http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/digitaldiscovery/biosfc.htm Not that much public info available on the guy.

erichocean 14y ago

Carmen Ortiz was the person in charge of either (a) not employing people like Stephen Heymann, or (b) overseeing their activities better. Of course, Stephen Heymann should also bear the blame. But we don't help society when we refuse to find those in charge responsible for the things they actually are responsible for.

erichocean 14y ago
BTW, here's her position on the case (via the NYT)[1]: Carmen M. Ortiz, a United States attorney, pressed on, saying that “stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars.” i.e. she was in full support of the trial against Aaron. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-internet-activist-dies-at-26.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-in...

ealloc 14y ago

The equivalent petition for Steve Heymann: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-attorney-steve-heymann/RJKSY2nb https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-...