Anonymous And Lulzsec hacks MIT websites as tribute to Aaron Swartz

Tribute to Aaron Swartz ~ Anonymous & LulzSec hacks MIT websites 

Mit.edu, cogen.mit.edu and rledev.mit.edu, were hacked into on Monday morning (IST) to display a red upon black text that condemned the US government’s prosecution of Swartz for attempting to encourage public access of scientific papers.

In a paste/statement on PasteBin, Anonymous expressed, “Whether or not the government contributed to his suicide, the government’s prosecution of Swartz was a grotesque miscarriage of justice, a distorted and perverse shadow of the justice that Aaron died fighting for – freeing the publicly-funded scientific literature from a publishing system that makes it inaccessible to most of those who paid for it – enabling the collective betterment of the world through the facilitation of sharing – an ideal that we should all support.”

jan 23, 2013   

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“Moreover, the situation Aaron found himself in highlights the injustice of U.S. computer crime laws, particularly their punishment regimes, and the highly-questionable justice of pre-trial bargaining. Aaron's act was undoubtedly political activism; it had tragic consequences.”


Swartz was also a prodigious programmer who helped establish the RSS standard at the age of 14. He also went on to play a significant part in building Reddit.

Hacked Message Displayed on MIT's Website

Swartz and the non-profit group he founded, DemandProgress had played a huge role in blocking the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act in the United States that was introduced in the House of Representatives in 2011. The bill, which was finally withdrawn amid public pressure, would have allowed court orders to curb access to certain websites deemed to be engaging in illegal sharing of intellectual property. Swartz and other activists objected on the grounds it would give the government too many broad powers to censor and squelch legitimate Web communication. 

Activist Aaron Swartz, dead at 26 (Image Credits: Slashgear.com)

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