Reading Aaron's article "Fix the machine, not the person" http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/nummi http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/nummi indicates to me that the publi

Reading Aaron's article "Fix the machine, not the person" http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/nummi http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/nummi indicates to me that the public discussion he'd like to have seen (and very sadly never got the chance to) is as you indicate - whether the law is actually appropriate in this and similar cases, and how to change its overall structure as opposed to punishing those who appear blame-worthy on the surface. As he writes, "It wasn’t the workers who were the problem; it was the system." The new EFF post https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/aaron-swartz-fix-draconian-computer-crime-law https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/aaron-swartz-fix-draco... seems particularly relevant in highlighting some of the insanity that has come to be U.S. computer crime case law. I am suddenly reminded of a Thoreau quote that Aaron's friend Laurence Lessig used in the opening of his book, Republic, Lost - "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." I think a lot of people admire Aaron for being one of the latter.