Former co-owner of Reddit arrested for allegedly hacking JStor

[ccord]

(Original story by Timothy Lee at Arstechnica.com...)

"Aaron Swartz, the 24-year-old wunderkind who co-authored the RSS specification at age 14 and sold his stake in Reddit to Condé Nast (which also owns Ars Technica) before his 20th birthday, was arrested Tuesday on charges of wire fraud, computer fraud, "unlawfully obtaining information from,"

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[anosognosia]

"four-point-eight million documents?"

That's what happens when you don't pick an obscure thesis topic.

[ccord]

I suppose that he could try to present the defense that his thesis was on the poor security (but excellent bandwidth!) of academic databases.

Or "culture". That seems sufficiently broad to mount a defense on.

[anosognosia]

Oh! I imagined he just kept following up on the bibliographies of each article until...

[ccord]

People read bibliographies? I thought that they were only in there at the insistence of the pulp & paper lobby.