In 2011, a video was recorded of then 24-year-old programmer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz breaking into a computer closet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It showed him switching out a laptop hard drive that had collected thousands of articles from JSTOR, the online academic library. The footage of Swartz and his rigged laptop had since become famous — not because its been viewed by millions online, but because U.S. prosecutors used it as evidence of computer and wire fraud against young coder, who eventually committed suicide while under federal investigation. …
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