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Well, except: On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested near the Harvard campus by two MIT police officers and a U.S. Secret Service agent. He was arraigned in C
by res0nat0r 13y ago
Well, except:
On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested near the Harvard campus by two MIT police officers and a U.S. Secret Service agent. He was arraigned in Cambridge District Court on two state charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony.
On July 11, 2011, Swartz was indicted in Federal District Court on four felony counts: wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer and recklessly damaging a protected computer.
On November 17, 2011, Swartz was indicted by a Middlesex County Superior Court grand jury on state charges of breaking and entering with intent, grand larceny and unauthorized access to a computer network.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Aaron_Swartz#Arrest.2C_charges_and_indictments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Aaron_Swartz#A...
- chaostheory 13y agoSo where exactly does it state that Aaron caused damage to systems, posed a threat, and deprived people of something? What you posted is a fancy way of saying that Aaron logged into JTSTOR using his own credentials and downloaded publicly funded research papers onto a computer hidden in an MIT supply closet. Who's the victim in his crime?
- danielweber 13y ago> Aaron logged into JTSTOR using his own credentials Huh? This is new.
- chaostheory 13y agoOk correction "Swartz used a Perl computer script running on Amazon cloud servers to download the documents, using credentials belonging to a Sacramento library." Again, who actually got hurt aside from Aaron?
- pyre 13y agoThat sounds more like the PACER incident. MIT pays for a site-license for JSTOR, so everyone on campus can access it for 'free.' This is why Aaron was trying to use MIT's network.