Salon.com > asteroids http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 20:11:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Anonymous hacks U.S. Sentencing Commission website for Aaron Swartz http://www.salon.com/2013/01/28/anonymous_hacks_doj_website_for_aaron_swartz/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/28/anonymous_hacks_doj_website_for_aaron_swartz/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:20:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13183789 Continuing tributes to the late Aaron Swartz, Anonymous hacked the website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission twice over the weekend. The hacker collective first commandeered the site Friday night, replacing the homepage with a video, in typical Anons style, which decried the government's treatment of Swartz, a brilliant young technologist who committed suicide facing felony charges for downloading over 4 million JSTOR articles.

Anonymous also claims to have distributed encrypted government files through the hacked website, threatening to release the decryption codes (revealing the as yet unknown information held on the stolen files) if the government fails to comply with demands to reform flawed cybercrime laws -- the laws under which Swartz was persecuted. The released files were named after Supreme Court justices. "A line has been crossed" with the zealous pursuit of charges against Swartz, the hackers' statement noted.

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