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chilling, absolutely chilling -- that this happens for writing code. hell, scraping a website. i agree that what Aaron did was not a 100% legal, but to equate i
by dalek2point3 13y ago
chilling, absolutely chilling -- that this happens for writing code. hell, scraping a website. i agree that what Aaron did was not a 100% legal, but to equate it with a criminal offence? Bah! Support Aaron's Law!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/aarons-law-introduced-now-time-reform-cfaa https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/aarons-law-introduced-...
- Zigurd 13y agoMore than that, make sure that the prosecutors on his case, Stephen Heymann and Carmen Ortiz, never ever have the opportunity to do the same to anyone else.
- midas007 13y agoThey need to be removed immediately for misconduct. Every day they are allowed to continue practicing law is a spit in the face.
- chimeracoder 13y agoCarmen Ortiz has been playing up her involvement in the Tsarnev brother's case (the Boston marathon bombings last year). Hopefully that doesn't overshadow her despicable role in Swartz's case, but given how sort the public attention span is, I'm not holding my breath. :/
- midas007 13y agoThe bill is currently stuck in committee in both the House and Senate. I'm sure we could unstick it if we had the leverage. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:s.1196 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:s.1196: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:h.r.2454 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:h.r.2454: