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Alex

@danslerush he was prosecuted before committing the alleged crime? Jfc

11 January at 15:48 | Wall-to-wall | Open on ohai.social
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DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ

@alexthepres " On the night of January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested near the Harvard campus by MIT Police and a Secret Service agent, and arraigned in Cambridge District Court on two state charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony. "

" On July 11, 2011, he was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computer. "

> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Sw

@alexthepres " On the night of January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested near the Harvard campus by MIT Police and a Secret Service agent, and arraigned in Cambridge District Court on two state charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony. "

" On July 11, 2011, he was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computer. "

11 January at 15:54 | Open on floss.social
Laetizia 'Tish' Coronet

@alexthepres @danslerush en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Sw "On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR using a guest user account issued to him by MIT."

11 January at 15:54 | Open on toot.io
OddOpinions5

@alexthepres @danslerush

I don't think this is right
afaik, In the US, it is almost unheard of, if not illegal, for someone to be prosecuted before committing an illegal act
of course, there maybe some rare exceptions

The initial charge was tresspass or breaking and entering on MIT property (the library, I have seen this myself, has sign on the door, use restricted to MIT people)

see here
swartz-report.mit.edu/faq.html

and here
swartz-report.mit.edu/docs/rep

@alexthepres @danslerush

I don't think this is right
afaik, In the US, it is almost unheard of, if not illegal, for someone to be prosecuted before committing an illegal act
of course, there maybe some rare exceptions

The initial charge was tresspass or breaking and entering on MIT property (the library, I have seen this myself, has sign on the door, use restricted to MIT people)

11 January at 16:07 | Open on mas.to
Santiago

@alexthepres @danslerush theoretically, he did. He was prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act , for downloading the files from a computer in a closet. AFAIK his intention or not to distribute them was not part of it.

wired.com/images_blogs/threatl

11 January at 16:40 | Open on masto.es
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