Aaron Swartz Remembered With Annual Hackathon In San Francisco (eff.org) 18
"This weekend you have the chance to add to Aaron Swartz's legacy by boosting tools for whistleblowers," the EFF writes. An anonymous reader quotes their report.
The 2016 Aaron Swartz International Hackathon -- held in honor of the late Internet and political activist -- will take place during the day Saturday and Sunday at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. The hackathon will focus on whistleblower submission system SecureDrop, which was created by Swartz and Kevin Poulsen to connect media organizations and anonymous sources and is managed by the Freedom of the Press Foundation. This weekend's events -- timed to what would have been his 30th birthday on Nov. 8 -- will also feature a series of speakers on Saturday night, including SecureDrop's Conor Schaefer, Fight for the Future Co-founder Tiffiniy Cheng, and EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn, as well as a special statement from Chelsea Manning.
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Anyone trusting a secure drop system that involved Kevin Poulsen in its development, should look at what happened to Chelsea Manning.
Interesting.
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Anyone trusting a secure drop system that involved Kevin Poulsen in its development, should look at what happened to Chelsea Manning.
Interesting.
Very.
Information wants to be free... (Score:1)
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Aaron Swartz is lucky he is dead - he no longer has the opportunity to read through that pile of crap
Re:Noam Chomsky killed Aaron Swartz (Score:4, Funny)
Wow. That's some shitty writing.
You know when a movie is so bad it's good? This writing doesn't achieve that. It reaches that exact, elusive point where it's as bad as it can possibly be without crossing over to the other side.
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False. He illegally attached his own equipment to someone else's network to intercept data and tried to hide his equipment because he knew he wasn't allowed to be where he was.
Then, when caught, rather than be a man and accept that he had acted illegally, he killed himself.
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Or like "being a man" is what prosecutors should be right? When officers are caught using pirated software, they should be brought to trial right? Because to Carmen Ortiz, "stealing is stealing" or when LEOs kill someone outright, yet prosecutors do their damnedest to protect officers right?
Shut the fuck up and stop pretending Carmen wasn't lying when she wanted to throw the kid in jail for 51 years then bullshit wind up the parents after he killed himself and then stating she only wanted 6 months in low se
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He and his counsel had decided to go to trial because they believed the charges wouldn't stick. Instead of simply waiting and being shown correct, he killed himself.
Whether I believe the charges were correct or not is irrelevant. He chose not to stand by his convictions.
Of course had he chosen not to be a criminal in the first place, none of this would be relevant. But instead we'll make excuses why the police are wrong and the criminal