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minus-squareBruhh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up88arrow-down2·1 year agoIf I remember correctly, it wasn’t even illegal since these scientific articles should have been public to begin with because they used public funds.
minus-squareSparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoThat may be so, but IIRC he was charged with breaking into MIT’s networking room and illegally tapping into their network to get the articles: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261840/Aaron-Swartz-MIT-surveillance-shot-ruined-tragic-Reddit-founders-life.html
minus-squareRGB3x3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down10·1 year agoWell that’s definitely burying the lede from the OP. It wasn’t the sharing part they had a problem with, it was the B&E and hacking.
minus-squarerefalo@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38arrow-down1·1 year agostill… 35 years? obviously there is more missing information.
minus-squarenooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·1 year agoIt wasn’t 35 years, it was 6 months with a plea deal
minus-squareDkarma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-21 year agoMost of these guys they just offer jobs to. This was needless. No wonder China is kicking our ass on the cyber front
minus-squareThorry84@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoThe whole criminals getting job offers has never been true and will never be true. For many of such jobs you aren’t qualified if you have a criminal record, even small offenses disqualify you.
minus-squareel_abuelo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·1 year agoAh my sweet summer child…how wonderful it must be to live in your world.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoThat’s still a hell of a sentence for a B&E
minus-squaremeliaesc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoMm. Breaking and entering to share publicly funded research is different than B&E with the threat of violence…
minus-squareivofcups@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoParadoxically, that’s not how science jourals work. There are no difference between public or prívate funds in this regard.
If I remember correctly, it wasn’t even illegal since these scientific articles should have been public to begin with because they used public funds.
That may be so, but IIRC he was charged with breaking into MIT’s networking room and illegally tapping into their network to get the articles:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261840/Aaron-Swartz-MIT-surveillance-shot-ruined-tragic-Reddit-founders-life.html
Well that’s definitely burying the lede from the OP.
It wasn’t the sharing part they had a problem with, it was the B&E and hacking.
still… 35 years? obviously there is more missing information.
It wasn’t 35 years, it was 6 months with a plea deal
Most of these guys they just offer jobs to. This was needless. No wonder China is kicking our ass on the cyber front
The whole criminals getting job offers has never been true and will never be true. For many of such jobs you aren’t qualified if you have a criminal record, even small offenses disqualify you.
Ah my sweet summer child…how wonderful it must be to live in your world.
That’s still a hell of a sentence for a B&E
Mm. Breaking and entering to share publicly funded research is different than B&E with the threat of violence…
Paradoxically, that’s not how science jourals work. There are no difference between public or prívate funds in this regard.