Posted on 01/26/2013 10:33:33 PM PST by ExxonPatrolUs
Anonymous, a band of online vigilante activists, has turned its ire on the U.S. Department of Justice, threatening to release secret, internal documents the group hacked in memory of Aaron Swartz, the Internet prodigy who committed suicide before his federal trial.
With Aarons death we can wait no longer. The time has come to show the United States Department of Justice and its affiliates the true meaning of infiltration. The time has come to give this system a taste of its own medicine, read part of the message and video posted on the U.S. Sentencing Commission website, which the activist group claimed responsibility for hacking yesterday. The website was down for most of the day before appearing to be back up late last night.
Anonymous whose members have railed against U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz for threatening Swartz with a 35-year sentence and $1 million fine for downloading obscure academic papers through a Massachusetts Institute of Technology server said it has infiltrated government computer systems, and offered to give media heavily redacted partial contents of the data, according to the message.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Since department of justice no longer stands for just,I’m all for it, except
for PII info.
What do they want in order to not release it?
I wish the kid would get some real support. Oh, and considering the reprehensible actions of MIT in this mess, I am surprised anybody would send their kid there. The university should be run for the students not the greedy professors and the students should be protected not sacrificed.
Seems unlikely to me.
I'd think that a Govt, ANY Gov’t, good bad or indifferent would want to get in control of a group like this.
....so who went after Swartz ??
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