Hundreds of people gathered at Cooper Union’s Great Hall in NY Saturday to pay tribute to Aaron Swartz. The 26-year-old was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment earlier this month. He killed himself just before facing a trial with 13 felony counts. He was accused of breaking into a wiring closet [Full Story…]
Hacker and Activist Aaron Swartz, 26, Commits Suicide in NY
January 12, 2013 at 4:28 pm
Aaron Swartz, Reddit, Creative Commons and Demand Progress co-founder, died Friday. ZDNet reported that the 26-year-old activist committed suicide in NY. Swartz was charged with 13 counts of felony hacking in September 2012 after he allegedly scraped 4 million MIT papers from the JSTOR online [Full Story…]
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