Anonymous hacks MIT in response to Internet activist’s death
Hacker group Anonymous attacked MIT’s website last night as payback for the university’s role in bringing charges against Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide on Friday. In a message posted to the site after it was brought down by a denial-of-service attack, Anonymous wrote: “Whether or not the government contributed to his suicide, the government’s prosecution of Swartz was a grotesque miscarriage of justice, a distorted and perverse shadow of the justice Aaron died fighting for.” Swartz had been charged for the alleged theft of nearly 5 million academic articles from MIT’s computer network. He faced a number of other computer fraud and wire fraud charges that could have seen him sent to prison for more than 30 years. [Source: AllThingsD]
