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Aaron Swartz Remembered With Annual Hackathon In San Francisco (eff.org)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the remember-remember dept.

"This weekend you have the chance to add to Aaron Swartz's legacy by boosting tools for whistleblowers," the EFF writes. An anonymous reader quotes their report. The 2016 Aaron Swartz International Hackathon -- held in honor of the late Internet and political activist -- will take place during the day Saturday and Sunday at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. The hackathon will focus on whistleblower submission system SecureDrop, which was created by Swartz and Kevin Poulsen to connect media organizations and anonymous sources and is managed by the Freedom of the Press Foundation. This weekend's events -- timed to what would have been his 30th birthday on Nov. 8 -- will also feature a series of speakers on Saturday night, including SecureDrop's Conor Schaefer, Fight for the Future Co-founder Tiffiniy Cheng, and EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn, as well as a special statement from Chelsea Manning.

18 comments

  1. if you guys really cared by sucko · · Score: 0

    you'd raise him from the dead.

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    -linux... they can't *give* that shit away.

  2. Chelsea Manning by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: -1, Troll

    A statement from Chelsea Manning about how it feels to not be the Democratic Candidate for the Presidency.

  3. Poulsen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Anyone trusting a secure drop system that involved Kevin Poulsen in its development, should look at what happened to Chelsea Manning.

    1. Re:Poulsen by Burz · · Score: 0

      Anyone trusting a secure drop system that involved Kevin Poulsen in its development, should look at what happened to Chelsea Manning.

      Interesting.

    2. Re:Poulsen by Burz · · Score: 1

      Anyone trusting a secure drop system that involved Kevin Poulsen in its development, should look at what happened to Chelsea Manning.

      Interesting.

      Very.

  4. What say we honor Aaron by killing ourselves! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    What better way to honor the man than to do as he did?

  5. Question... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Did everyone kill themselves afterwards?

  6. Information wants to be free... by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

    ...but the owners of it don't necessarily want it.

  7. Noam Chomsky killed Aaron Swartz by HanzoSpam · · Score: -1

    The most insightful view I've seen of the whole sordid matter

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    Progressivism: Parasites helping parasites to help themselves - to other people's stuff.
    1. Re:Noam Chomsky killed Aaron Swartz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Aaron Swartz is lucky he is dead - he no longer has the opportunity to read through that pile of crap

    2. Re:Noam Chomsky killed Aaron Swartz by flacco · · Score: 3, Funny

      Wow. That's some shitty writing.

      You know when a movie is so bad it's good? This writing doesn't achieve that. It reaches that exact, elusive point where it's as bad as it can possibly be without crossing over to the other side.

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      pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
    3. Re:Noam Chomsky killed Aaron Swartz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, quite a few cowardly criminals kill themselves instead of taking responsibility for what they did...

  8. Aaron Swartz Remembered....... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Who?

    1. Re: Aaron Swartz Remembered....... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Exactly. I had to Google it. He accessed private data he had guest access to and ended up suiciding because he was being labeled a felon. Weak minds.

    2. Re: Aaron Swartz Remembered....... by smooth+wombat · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      False. He illegally attached his own equipment to someone else's network to intercept data and tried to hide his equipment because he knew he wasn't allowed to be where he was.

      Then, when caught, rather than be a man and accept that he had acted illegally, he killed himself.

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      We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
    3. Re: Aaron Swartz Remembered....... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Or like "being a man" is what prosecutors should be right? When officers are caught using pirated software, they should be brought to trial right? Because to Carmen Ortiz, "stealing is stealing" or when LEOs kill someone outright, yet prosecutors do their damnedest to protect officers right?

      Shut the fuck up and stop pretending Carmen wasn't lying when she wanted to throw the kid in jail for 51 years then bullshit wind up the parents after he killed himself and then stating she only wanted 6 months in low security.

      Fucking shill.

    4. Re: Aaron Swartz Remembered....... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      smooth wombat, does it make you sad that prosecutors lie too?

      Or do you actually believe he deserved 51 years in jail?

      I wonder, if I looked at Vanessa Hudgens selfie, am I a child predator? Grandpa marrying Grandma when he was 18 and she was 16, he's a child predator too right?

      Because the law's the law? She wanted a check mark in the win column of her career. No more, no less. Don't sit here and pretend, so sad.

    5. Re: Aaron Swartz Remembered....... by smooth+wombat · · Score: 1

      Or do you actually believe he deserved 51 years in jail?

      He and his counsel had decided to go to trial because they believed the charges wouldn't stick. Instead of simply waiting and being shown correct, he killed himself.

      Whether I believe the charges were correct or not is irrelevant. He chose not to stand by his convictions.

      Of course had he chosen not to be a criminal in the first place, none of this would be relevant. But instead we'll make excuses why the police are wrong and the criminal is a saint.

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      We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower