The public is seeing the first fruits of a Freedom of Information Act request for the Secret Service’s files on the late hacker and activist Aaron Swartz with the release of 104 pages of agency documents. Swartz committed suicide at the age of 26 while facing the possibility of up to 35 years in prison for the bulk downloading of some 70 gigabytes of academic papers from the JSTOR repository on the MIT campus.
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/12/4615850/first-secret-service-documents-on-aaron-swartz-investigation-released
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