Harvard researcher arrested on hacking charges
Jul 21, 2011
Harvard researcher arrested on hacking charges A Harvard researcher Aaron Swartz has been arrested in Boston for broke into the computer networks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to gain access to JSTOR, a non-profit online service for distributing scholarly articles, and downloaded 4.8 million articles and other documents - nearly the entire library Swartz was something of an internet folk hero as a teenager when he helped create RSS, a computer code that allows people to receive automatic feeds of online notices and news. He has emerged as a civil liberties activist who crusades for open access to data. In 2008, Mr Swartz released a '' Guerilla Open Access Manifesto '', calling for activists to '' fight back '' against the sequestering of scholarly papers behind pay walls. '' It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture...