The White House will not act on a petition filed to fire the U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit and crusader for a free-and-open internet. Swartz died, of an… Read more »
The online record system for the federal courts is in shambles, and now some of the public information is simply disappearing. The mess persists even as users pay more and more… Read more »
The Boston Globe unearthed details of the investigation that led to Aaron Swartz’s arrest and prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Read more »
Legal action by Wired.com reporter Kevin Poulsen has succeeded in getting the Secret Service to start releasing its file on deceased hacker activist Swartz. The first 104 pages confirm the Secret… Read more »
The New Yorker has launched Strongbox, an open-source software system that allows users to submit confidential documents to the magazine anonymously. Strongbox was built by Aaron Swartz before his death… Read more »
MIT will publish documents now under seal about the Aaron Swartz prosecution, but it will edit them to protect individuals’ privacy and the security of the school’s networks, according to MIT… Read more »
Friends, family and colleagues memorialized computer activist Aaron Swartz and put MIT’s role in his prosecution front and center on Tuesday afternoon at MIT Media Lab. Read more »
Proposals are in the works to change the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the wake of hacker-activist Aaron Swartz’s untimely death, but those changes are important for reasons that go… Read more »