Almost one year after hacker and Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide, Wired has obtained the video that led the Massachusetts Institute of Technology police and the Secret Service to arrest him for downloading millions of academic articles.
The video was published as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by Wired‘s investigations editor Kevin Poulsen against the Secret Service, which investigated the case. The U.S. government released the first of Swartz’s Secret Service files in August.
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In late 2010, MIT discovered that someone was downloading millions of academic articles from an online database using the school’s public network. MIT then started investigating the issue and finally found a laptop connected to the campus’ servers in a closet of Building 16 Read more…
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