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WIRED
February 14, 2018
Norton, a writer-activist who covered, among other things, the Occupy and Anonymous movements for WIRED in the 2000s, has been an outspoken voice for hackers, the open-source and free-speech communities, and people working on digital security and privacy. She has been a chronicler and target ofÃâà...
Oxygen (blog)
January 29, 2018
According to the New York Post, 36-year-old Internet activist James Dolan (seen right) hung himself on December 26 in the Gowanus Inn and Yard in Brooklyn. The death was eerily similar to the 2013 suicide of Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz (seen left), who hung himself in Washington, D.C.. Both menÃâà...
Mother Jones
December 28, 2017
Over soggy scrambled eggs at the Hyatt Regency in Lexington, Kentucky, Tor Ekeland is doing his best to cheer up Deric Lostutter, a 30-year-old hacker who is about to be ... Exhibit A for the law's detractors is Aaron Swartz, the internet whiz kid who killed himself in 2013 while under indictment for downloading millions ofÃâà...
Deadline
December 4, 2017
In Think Aaron, child prodigy and programming genius Swartz becomes his generation's most important and influential “hacktivist,” a political activist using his expertise in technology to fight for open and equal access to knowledge on the Internet, only to find himself imprisoned and made an example of byÃâà...
CSO Online
November 6, 2017
A homeless, fugitive hacker has asked Mexico for asylum, according to Operation Golden Eagle, an operation run by a group from the hacking collective ... we can see that this Anonymous Operation is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz – “that no more hacktivists will die at the hands of the USDoJ.
EFF
October 31, 2017
On November 4 and 5, the Internet Archive will host the Fifth Annual Aaron Swartz Day and Hackathon. Aaron would have turned 31 on November 8. The late activist, political organizer, programmer, and entrepreneur was a dear friend of EFF's who made a lasting imprint on the Internet and the digitalÃâà...
The Independent
July 29, 2017
... she was prepared to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights if necessary. So far, Mr Love has faced three extradition requests from separate US court districts for his alleged involvement in hacking the US government as part of a protest following the death of internet activist Aaron Swartz.
RollingStone.com
June 29, 2017
Most notably, this happened in the case of activist Aaron Swartz, the Harvard research fellow who was charged with illegally downloading several million .... Facebook rebel-rousing, creating groups on Logan River and networking with other activists; an online petition to end certain practices at Logan River.
New York Times
January 12, 2013
Aaron Swartz, a wizardly programmer who as a teenager helped develop code that delivered ever-changing Web content to users and who later became a ... The database charges 10 cents a page for documents; activists like Carl Malamud, the founder of public.resource.org , have long argued that suchÃâà...
