Aaron Swartz went into a secure networking closet and left a computer there to pull data from the server over many days, which is absolutely not the same thing as scraping public data from the internet.
He was a hero that didn’t deserve what happened, but it’s patently dishonest ignore that he was effectively breaking and entering, plus installing a data harvesting device in the server room, which any organization in the world would rightfully identity as a hostile.
After state prosecutors dropped their charges, federal prosecutors filed a superseding indictment adding nine more felony counts, which increased Swartz’s maximum criminal exposure to 50 years of imprisonment and $1 million in fines.
Can we be honest about this, please?
Aaron Swartz went into a secure networking closet and left a computer there to pull data from the server over many days, which is absolutely not the same thing as scraping public data from the internet.
He was a hero that didn’t deserve what happened, but it’s patently dishonest ignore that he was effectively breaking and entering, plus installing a data harvesting device in the server room, which any organization in the world would rightfully identity as a hostile.
Another bootlicker spotted.
Why don’t you speak what you truly believe instead of copy-pasting the same gaslighting everywhere? We already made you, anyway.
Wao, it’s not often we get to see someone posting a comment so full of shit while making sure to obscure many facts to see if it sticks.
“Can we be honest”? Apparently you cannot.