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The first thing I did, which presumably all of you have already got covered, was to learn about computers, the Internet, and Internet culture. I read a bunch of books, I read enormous numbers of web pages, and I tried stuff. First I joined mailing lists and tried to understand the discussions until I felt comfortable jumping in and trying to participate for myself. Then I looked at web sites and tried to build my own. And finally I learned how to build web applications and I started building them. I was thirteen.... RIP Aaron Swartz, RSS spec contributor, Reddit co-founder, hacktivist.
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It's really sad about his suicide. I'm really proud of that young boy who has done such a tremendous job in his early ages.
Sadly I came to know about him just 2 days back. There's lot to learn from him, Below is what I was just reading about,
Aaron Swartz is a contributor to the MusicBrainz project, especially its metadata initiative. He is also a member of the W3C's RDF Core Working Group and a co-founder of SWAG: The Semantic Web Agreement Group. You'll likely find him in the RDF IRC channel, working on some interesting new Semantic Web software. His website is at http://www.aaronsw.com/
Thanks,
Ranjan.D
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Quote: Swartz was eulogized by his friend and sometime attorney, Lawrence Lessig, calling his prosecution an abuse of proportionality and noting, "the question this government needs to answer is why it was so necessary that Aaron Swartz be labeled a 'felon'."
Quote: Alex Stamos, CEO of Artemis Internet, is a computer forensics investigator employed by the Swartz legal defense as an expert witness. On January 12, 2013, he posted a summary of the expert testimony he was prepared to present in the JSTOR case, concluding, "I know a criminal hack when I see it, and Aaron’s downloading of journal articles from an unlocked closet is not an offense worth 35 years in jail."[48]
I agree with both of these. The Government and MIT overreacted.
Quote: The government, however, has interpreted the anti-hacking provisions to include activities such as violating a Web site's terms of service or a company's computer usage policy, a position a federal appeals court in April said means "millions of unsuspecting individuals would find that they are engaging in criminal conduct."
That is a good thing. The government went nuts. I am wondering if someone at MIT has something to do with all these allegations and things... hmm.....
I also saw earlier that the government said that only Swartz was guilty in that interpretation, which reeks of foul play. Just have to find where I saw that. (Chrome crashed and deleted my history, so I can't find it through that.)
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Thanks for the info.
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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