While I still think he was a good, well-meaning kid, others have noted how the Zionist media machine picked up his cause and case, and how his death is now being used to rewrite and strengthen (iow, toughen) current law. Even when they are doing "good" it's for their own selfish and supremacist reasons.
"Rally honors Internet activist Aaron Swartz" by Maria Sacchetti | Globe Staff" April 13, 2013
Aaron Swartz’s suicide triggered a national debate over whether prosecutors were overzealous in pursuing charges against the 26-year-old computer wunderkind, who helped create the RSS information-distribution software and who merged his start-up with the popular website Reddit.com....
At the time of his indictment in July 2011, US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz’s office said, “Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar and whether you take documents, data, or dollars.’’
That is so interesting in light of the fact that they are offering amnesty and immunity to the art thieves -- and don't even get me started on her boss and the banks.
But Swartz pleaded not guilty. His girlfriend said he felt he didn’t violate the law because he had legal access to the documents and noted that he did not harm anyone or act for personal gain.
On Saturday, protesters said the law, created before the World Wide Web, gives prosecutors too much discretion to target people such as Swartz or anyone who violates the terms of a website’s user agreement. They said anyone who creates a fake online profile or borrows someone’s password, depending on the website’s rules, could be vulnerable to criminal prosecution as well.
Okay then:
"Leaked emails from data security firm HBGary show the federal government is offering private intelligence companies contracts to create software to manage “fake people” on social media sites, possibly to manipulate public opinion or create the illusion of consensus on controversial issues."
Who Are the Hackers?
Gonzalez Can't Get Away From the Long Arm of the Law
One in four US hackers 'is an FBI informer'
"Hackers often go to the National Security Agency, where they work on offensive digital attacks on foreign nations."
Your new Facebook ‘friend’ may be the FBI
I suppose it's okay then.
“He committed no crime in my view,” said Harvey Silverglate, a lawyer and civil rights advocate at the rally. “I actually think he would’ve won his case. But his life was ruined and ended by an injustice and a totally ill-considered prosecution.”
Which makes his "suicide" all that more suspicious.
Yochai Benkler, a Harvard law professor who also spoke at the rally, said in an interview that people who steal credit card numbers online and commit other serious crimes should be prosecuted, but not young people raised on an Internet where information is considered widely accessible. “It was basically doing something that his entire generation embraces as its own,” he said.
David Segal, executive director of Demand Progress, a nonprofit that he and Swartz founded and which led Saturday’s rally, said many innovators besides Swartz skirted the rules in the name of progress, such as Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg.
Swartz’s suicide has reverberated across the country. Congress has opened an inquiry into how the prosecutors handled the case and lawmakers have gone back and forth over changing the law.
Hate to say it, but were he not Jewish it would be a tragedy but forgotten.
MIT has been hacked at least three times since his death and in February, the campus was shaken when a caller falsely claimed that there was a gunman on campus who planned to target the president Rafael Reif in retaliation for Swartz’s death.
I'll deal with the gunman below, but the hacking goes to show you that agent provocateurs are on the case. When your actions advance the government agenda you are suspect.
In March, masked demonstrators showed up at Ortiz’s home in Milton and dropped off a cake at her house decorated with the words “Justice for Aaron,” frightening neighbors and young children.
Related:
"Milton police on March 16 responded to a small demonstration by people who went to the home of US Attorney Carmen Ortiz to protest her handling of the Aaron Swartz case. The protesters, who identified with the Occupy movement, placed “Wanted” posters bearing Ortiz’s name near her Milton home and left a cake on the property with the words “Justice for Aaron” written in frosting, according to Deputy Police Chief Charles Paris. Police sent the cake to the FBI, he said. Ortiz said last week that she respected the rights of individuals to express views, but added that protesters wearing masks in her neighborhood frightened her children and neighbors. Swartz, who was charged with illegally obtaining documents from protected computers, committed suicide in January."
Related: Occupy Now Controlled Opposition
Whenever the corporate ma$$ media mention them it is, and this "masked(?)" stunt didn't help. If anything, it gained sympathy for Ortiz. Who benefited?
Why aren't they worried about the laws being passed by Congress?
"CISPA creates an exception to all privacy laws to permit companies
to share our information with each other and with the government in the
name of cybersecurity. CISPA’s information sharing regime allows the
transfer of vast amounts of data, including sensitive information like
Internet records or the content of emails to any agency in the
government including military and intelligence agencies like the
National Security Agency or the Department of Defense Cyber Command."
Yeah, instead they are bringing a cake to the prosecutors house? After a surge in prosecutor shootings across this country?
On Saturday, his girlfriend urged people to refrain from threats or violence against anyone involved in the case, calling it “wrong and counterproductive” and “a dishonor to Aaron’s memory.”
Proving that those acts are psy-ops by agent provocateurs.
Ortiz declined comment on Saturday through a spokeswoman. She has expressed condolences for Swartz’s death and also urged protesters to express their views at the courthouse instead, where her office is located and where Swartz was being prosecuted.
At the time of his indictment, Swartz was facing up to 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine. Later prosecutors offered him six months in federal prison if he pleaded guilty.
Swartz refused the deal and vowed to continue the case. But privately, he struggled with depression.
Was he on prescription pharmaceuticals, because we have not been told a word about that in this case?
On Saturday, many demonstrators remembered Swartz’s struggle as they called for the ouster of Ortiz and prosecutor Stephen Heymann at Dewey Square.
Then, as a band played, they marched to the courthouse where he was to have been prosecuted.
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, a [willowy] nonprofit director now based in San Francisco, said the system overwhelmed even Swartz, who had the resources to hire good lawyers. That day in January, she prodded him to get out of bed, but he would not....
I know it's a terrible thought, but she did she play a role?
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Related: Sunday Globe Special: Swartz's Suicide
Swartz's Swan Song
Looks to me like he has enough people speaking up for him.
Now about that "gunman."
"Report of gunman at MIT a hoax" by Peter Schworm, Dan Adams, Gal Tziperman Lotan and Peter Schworm | Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff, February 24, 2013
CAMBRIDGE — Dozens of police officers descended on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus Saturday morning, moments after receiving a threatening message about a gunman that turned out to be a hoax.
Wow, deja vu!
But MIT students were not notified about the threat until more than an hour after it was first reported, when the school’s campus emergency messaging system sent a mass text message to students instructing them to remain indoors.
The unfounded report of a man armed with a rifle and dressed in armor inside the main building on MIT’s campus came from an electronic message sent to Cambridge police about 7:30 a.m. Saturday, authorities said at a news conference.
John DiFava, chief of MIT’s campus police, acknowledged the lengthy delay in communicating the threat to students when asked about it by reporters at the press conference.
“I have to look into it and find out the reason for the lag,” he said.
A spokeswoman for MIT declined to comment on the delay or to describe campus alert procedures, but the school said in a prepared statement that “MIT Police and other parts of the MIT administration will, as part of standard operating procedure, conduct an after-action review of MIT’s police and communications actions during this event.”
The statement said MIT sent a “precautionary text message” to students at 8:52 a.m, an hour and 24 minutes after Cambridge police first received the report about a gunman inside 77 Massachusetts Ave.
At 9:22, MIT posted on its website reports that a “there was a person with a long rifle and body armor” in the main building, and urged students to stay indoors.
Police said more than 30 officers responded to the scene and closed down Massachusetts Avenue, which runs through campus, between Vassar Street and Memorial Drive. They initiated a lockdown and conducted a search of the building, which yielded nothing unusual, authorities said.
A dry run drill for the Boston Marathon Bombings?
“I can tell you for certain we did not have a person in the building with a gun,” Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas said. “We have enough witnesses at this point in time to verify that. The incident that was reported did not take place.”
Police officials would not describe the contents of the message, or how it was received, though Cambridge police spokesman Dan Riviello said in an e-mail that the report did not come via one of the department’s anonymous tip submission platforms.
State Police spokesman David Procopio described the report as a hoax and said it alluded to a “possible barricaded armed suspect.”
Haas said detectives were working to determine who was responsible.
“We are taking this very seriously,” Haas said. “This investigation is still very much active and there are investigative leads we’re following. If we do indeed identify the person, we will be seeking criminal charges.”
Haas said he had been in discussions with Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone about the case, and that the FBI and Secret Service are assisting in the investigation....
Zach Wener-Fligner, 21, a junior at MIT, said he first received an alert at 8:51 a.m., as did other students interviewed by the Globe.
“I definitely freaked out a little bit” upon hearing the news, he said. “I thought of Virginia Tech,” he said referring to the 2007 campus fatal shooting of 33 people, including the shooter.
Police had cleared the scene by 10 a.m., officials said at the news conference.
Authorities said there was no indication the hoax was related to Aaron Swartz, the Internet activist who recently took his own life.
Really?
Swartz was facing a federal investigation and possible prison time after downloading and freely distributing millions of academic articles from an MIT database.
His death galvanized supporters of open access to academic research and inspired sympathizers to hack MIT’s website.
On the MIT campus Saturday, many students said they were catching up on sleep during the event....
They did this on a Saturday? I SMELL a PSY-OP!
The tipster could have used botnets — networks of computers in homes and offices infected with malware, malicious software — to bounce an electronic message through various untraceable addresses across the world, said Jeff Schiller, a former manager of MIT’s network who has worked with the university for 36 years.
I'll bet it was CHINA then! Or North Korea! Or Iran! Or Syria!
The falsified tip could have also come from a “darknet,” he said, which lets users browse the Web with an anonymous Internet Protocol address.
Or from the government and its paid agents (as I noted above).
The threat also could have come from a mobile device. Smartphones with outmoded or inadequate software can be compromised, Schiller said, allowing someone to remotely send e-mails and text messages from a phone without being identified.
“People who resort to crime usually aren’t the smartest in the world, so you can catch them,” Schiller said. “Where authorities start to have a problem is hacktivists. . . . Not to say that they can’t be caught, but there are plenty among them who will be smart enough to cover their tracks.”
I don't know; the bankers seem pretty smart even though they are the scum of the earth.
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And look who was getting in on the act:
"FBI, Secret Service join probe of MIT tip of gunman" by Todd Feathers | Globe Correspondent, February 26, 2013
The FBI and Secret Service confirmed Monday that they have joined the Cambridge and MIT police departments to help investigate an unfounded tip that a gunman was roaming a Massachusetts Institute of Technology building Saturday morning.
Steven Ricciardi, director of the Secret Service’s Boston field office, said the agency’s electronic crimes task force is involved because the incident “does have a component to it that’s associated to the Internet.”
The FBI’s contribution could range from offering access to federal databases to “a variety of larger measures,” spokesman Greg Comcowich said. He declined to discuss details of the MIT case.
At about 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Cambridge police received a tip that a man dressed in armor and carrying a rifle was inside 77 Massachusetts Ave., the main building on MIT’s campus. Authorities have said the tip was sent through a form of electronic communication, but have not elaborated.
The tip contained multiple names of specific people, Dan Riviello, a spokesman for the Cambridge Police Department, said Monday. He declined to provide additional details.
Cambridge police said that the MIT building was put in lockdown mode and students and staff across campus were warned to stay indoors while more than 30 officers searched the building.
It WAS a PRACTICE RUN -- pardon the pun -- folks!!
Massachusetts Avenue between Vassar Street and Memorial Drive was also shut down, but officials determined there was no gunman in the area....
Did we really see what we thought we saw?
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Related:
Tension, then questions, from MIT gunman hoax
MIT hoaxster sent tip using special system
MIT says hoax motivated by Swartz death
Mum’s the wrong word in MIT gunman hoax
Also see:
"Air files on Internet activist’s case, father asks; Deplores hacking in son’s memory" by Katherine Landergan | Globe Correspondent, March 20, 2013
The father of the late internet activist Aaron Swartz called on MIT Tuesday to release documents related to the federal case against his son, while lamenting that hackers have repeatedly tried to harm computer networks in his son’s memory....
Kind of ironic when you think about it. I mean, the kid did commit a crime. Had I been on the jury I would have nullified that law.
Since Swartz committed suicide, his case has become a rallying point for Internet activists and civil libertarians who say prosecutors overreached in bringing federal charges against him. In recent weeks, MIT’s computer system has been hacked at least three times, and in late February, a hoax caller falsely reported there was a gunman on campus. MIT later disclosed that the caller said he was retaliating for Swartz’s death.
Swartz said that the hacks following his son’s death have been upsetting. “Obviously we are distressed by anything that is negative or destructive,” he said....
I'm only upset because I know who or what is behind it.
MIT president Rafael Reif noted that MIT has seen “a pattern of harassment and personal threats’’ since Swartz’s suicide....
Not by me. Too busy here.
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