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Anonymous Warhead Targets US Sentencing Commission
theodp writes "Late Friday, Violet Blue reports, the U.S. Sentencing Commission website was hacked and government files distributed by Anonymous in 'Operation Last Resort.' The U.S. Sentencing Commission sets guidelines for sentencing in United States Federal courts, and on the defaced ussc.gov website Anonymous cited the recent suicide of Aaron Swartz as 'a line that has been crossed.' Calling the launch of its new campaign a "warhead," Anonymous vowed, 'This time there will be change, or there will be chaos.'"
Adds reader emil: "Anonymous has not specified exactly what files they have obtained. The various files were named after Supreme Court judges. At a regular interval commencing today, Anonymous will choose one media outlet and supply them with heavily redacted partial contents."
If you're going 25mph over the speed limit it's a felony. If you also run a red light at that speed it could be reckless driving, also a felony. Just because he was charged with felonies doesn't mean he would have been convicted of them. Ever hear of plea deals? We'll never know now because the whiny little coward killed himself. It's the job of prosecutors to over reach. We have an adversarial court system. It was the job of his lawyer to fight. Little Swartz decided to take the "easy" way out however. I will never understand the people bitching about this.
Sorry but you missed the main issue in what he did. After being denied net access because he was downloading too much he physically entered a server room and installed hardware on someone else's network to download the files we was unable to get over the network. If you want to use your household analogy he was invited in to have some food. He was then told to leave as he had consumed too much. He later broke in the back door and took the food anyway.