panamint_patty wrote:It doesn't seem likely that Swartz committed suicide. That doesn't add up. The pedo conspiracy theory is way out in Lululand as far as I'm concerned, though. As for the Young Turks, they often go after straw men in a weak effort to make their point. For some reason Cenk is fixated on Ted Nugent. The cheap shots they resort to do nothing but lower my opinion of them.
Agreed. Currently the EFF has lots of information posted about Swartz. He was highly revered in the computer and hacking communities.
At EFF, Aaron's death created two imperatives on issues that are close to our hearts. The first is to continue his work to open up closed and entrenched systems that prevent ordinary people from having access to the world’s knowledge, especially the knowledge created with our tax dollars. More on that soon.
The second imperative is to attack the computer crime laws that were so horribly misused in the prosecution of Aaron. That is the focus of this post.
LINK: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/effs-initial-improvements-aarons-law-computer-crime-reform