Aaron Swartz

Aaron Swartz, Wikileaks, & Senator John Cornyn - YouTube

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:43:47 GMT

Source: www.diigo.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
Aaron Swartz 事件最新爆料！原来US搞Aaron 是因为他参与了wikileak。结果又找不到直接证据，于是就加重已经抓到的把柄（下论文）重罚他。怪不得MIT都萎了，只能说配合政府吧。http://t.co/klDVYH30 http://t.co/X91mpgDk Tags: #diigo ...

STRONGBOX: Aaron Swartz’s Last Project

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:15:50 GMT

Source: www.infiniteunknown.net --- Monday, May 20, 2013
- Introducing Strongbox: Aaron Swartz’s Last Project (Liberty Blitzkrieg, May 19, 2013): I remain haunted by the death of Aaron Swartz. In fact, his passing is still one of the first things I mention to people when I want to provide an example of how out of control and drunk on power the government is. [...] ...

Aaron Swartz lives

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:14:39 GMT

Source: www.washingtonmonthly.com --- Sunday, May 19, 2013
The legacy of the late internet activist Aaron Swartz lives on. Just this past week, Aaron received the ultimate pop culture tribute: he was the answer to a question on Jeopardy . The topic was "Tech Drop-Outs." Here's the clue, which was worth $2,000: This Stanford dropout & RSS pioneer died in 2013 while fighting government charges But Jeopardy is far from the only attention, cultural, political, or otherwise, that Aaron has received since his tragic death this past January. Consider the following: -- There were long-form profiles of Aaron that appeared in Slate , New York magazine , the New Republic, the Atlantic, the Verge, and the New Yorker . -- A Kickstarter for an authorized documentary about Aaron met its goal in a matter of days. -- Posthumously, Aaron won the American Library Association's prestigious James Madison Award , which honors "individuals or groups who have championed, protected and promoted public access to government information and the public’s right to know at the national level." -- An artist in Greenpoint, Brooklyn made Aaron the subject of his latest mural . -- Two federal laws have been proposed that bear his influence. One, called "Aaron's Law," "aims to change the 1984 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and the wire fraud statute to exclude terms of service violations." The other, called FASTR, would advance open access by requiring federal agencies to provide the public with online access to schol ...

Introducing Strongbox: Aaron Swartz’s Last Project

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:51:58 GMT

Source: libertyblitzkrieg.com --- Sunday, May 19, 2013
I remain haunted by the death of Aaron Swartz. In fact, his passing is still one of the first things I mention to people when I want to provide an example of how out of control and drunk on power the government is. The incredible accomplishments he achieved in his short life are nothing short of extraordinary, and the fact the feds mercilessly attacked him and drove him to suicide epitomizes the unfortunate rapid decline of our culture and civilization. Amazingly, Aaron continues to bless the world with gifts from his brilliant mind even after his passing. In this case I am referring to Strongbox, an encrypted and more secure way of providing information to journalists. It was a project Aaron was working on with Kevin Poulsen before his death and was launched by the New Yorker a few days ago. From Techdirt : The New Yorker has announced a new anonymous document sharing system called Strongbox , that will allow people to anonymously and securely submit documents to reporters from the New Yorker. Other publications have tried to set up something like this — often inspired by Wikileaks — but for the most part, they’ve been full of security holes , sometimes big and serious ones. What may be more interesting than the fact that this system is being set up is the story behind it. It’s based on DeadDrop , an open source system that was put together by Aaron Swartz and Kevin Poulsen. Poulsen has the backstory of DeadDrop here , which is ...

New Yorker launches tool by Aaron Swartz to protect leaks

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:40:24 GMT

Source: warincontext.org --- Sunday, May 19, 2013
Salon: This week has been a disquieting one for journalists concerned about protecting their sources. The revelation that the Justice Department had been spying on AP reporters’ phone records, although it came as no surprise to those attuned to this government’s attitude to First Amendment protections, reinforced the importance of enabling the unsurveilled free-flow of [...] ...

Aaron Swartz's Last Gift: Site Launches Whistleblower Safe House

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:44:42 GMT

Source: www.commondreams.org --- Friday, May 17, 2013
Kevin Poulsen and Aaron Swartz working out the kinks of their open sourced safe house. (Photo via The New Yorker) One month before his January 11th suicide , web pioneer and creative commons architect Aaron Swartz completed one last project—an "opensource drop box for leaked documents along the lines of WikiLeaks." read more ...

Strongbox and Aaron Swartz

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:42:00 GMT

Source: cacm.acm.org --- Friday, May 17, 2013
Aaron Swartz was not yet a legend when, almost two years ago, I asked him to build an open-source, anonymous in-box. ...

Aaron Swartz's 'Strongbox' could help protect sources

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:52:46 GMT

Source: www.marketplace.org --- Friday, May 17, 2013
We're all taught that a free press is vital to a functioning democracy. And an important resource to that free press is the ability to protect the identity of sources. So what happens when, in the age of the internet, it's extremely hard to stay anonymous? The Justice Department says it subpoenaed the Associated Press's phone records to investigate a "national security leak." Many journalists are up in arms about that. Long-time investigative reporter Kevin Poulsen might hold part of a solution. He created something called Strongbox for the New Yorker Magazine , with the help of the late Internet activist Aaron Swartz. ...

Redacted Emails Ordered Released in Aaron Swartz Case

Fri, 17 May 2013 03:48:16 GMT

Source: www.groklaw.net --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn conceded that limited redactions might make sense, but was disappointed that the government, MIT and JSTOR must agree on the redactions. "There's a huge community of MIT students and alumni who are quite concerned about MIT's involvement and they deserve to know," she said. She found it troubling that the court essentially said the public has almost no interest here, compared to the interests of the government, JSTOR and MIT. "The public has a tremendous interest in how its law enforcement tools are used against people like Aaron Swartz." - Sheri Qualters, National Law Journal ...

Strongbox and Aaron Swartz (The New Yorker)

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:14:42 GMT

Source: lwn.net --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
The New Yorker magazine has started a service called Strongbox that allows anonymous information to be sent to magazine. It is based on the DeadDrop free software project that was created by the late Aaron Swartz, which uses the Tor network to preserve anonymity. The magazine also has an article by Kevin Poulsen, who organized the project, about its history. " In New York, a computer-security expert named James Dolan persuaded a trio of his industry colleagues to meet with Aaron to review the architecture and, later, the code. We wanted to be reasonably confident that the system wouldn't be compromised, and that sources would be able to submit documents anonymouslyâso that even the media outlets receiving the materials wouldn't be able to tell the government where they came from. " ...

Aaron Swartz Versus the Bankers

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:32:39 GMT

Source: www.freakonomics.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
(Illustration: DonkeyHotey) A New Yorker article on Aaron Swartz , who committed suicide while under federal investigation for bulk downloading academic articles, leaves little to disagree with. But it missed a comparison that has troubled me: between Swartz and the bankers who tanked the world economy. I have found myself unable to write about this topic until now. First, Swartz lived for many years in my apartment building in Cambridge, Mass., and many residents remember him as quiet and kind. Second, I share his belief in the free flow of information. Using the NonCommercial ShareAlike license from Creative Commons , MIT Press published and freely licensed my Street-Fighting Mathematics . “One of the early architects” of Creative Commons was Aaron Swartz. Swartz tried to free knowledge and expand the public domain. In contrast, the bankers took from the public domain. Not one banker has gone to jail , except Bernie Madoff — whose crime, as Matt Taibbi points out, was defrauding the wealthy. Bankers, even with a demonstrated record of laundering billions in drug money, are too big to jail . In contrast, Swartz was threatened with a long federal prison sentence. Swartz was an enemy of rent-seeking . The bankers are its epitome. Whereas the bankers are drawing ever bigger bonuses, Swartz’s case ended in his suicide. As a final contrast, Swartz failed in his last project: the academic knowledge, much of it paid for with public fun ...

A.M. Links: IRS Fibbed About Surge in Non-Profit Applications, Aaron Swartz Left a Tipster-Friendly Legacy, Chicago FOIA Compliance Involves a Paper Shredder

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:00:00 GMT

Source: reason.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
While President Obama accepts the resignations of IRS apparatchiks who were about to leave anyway, he may want to do something about that smell of BS clinging to the tax collectors' offices. Their explanation that extra scrutiny was devoted to government critics because of a surge in non-profit applications runs afoul of the actual drop in applications at the time . Aaron Swartz may be gone, but his legacy lives on in a very relevant way. His DeadDrop project allows anonymous tipsters to communicate with journalists in a secure fashion. It will probably be banned in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel apparently finds freedom of information requests annoying, so his administration has taken to destroying records so there's nothing to be free about. In Europe, Italy's economy is shriveling faster than Belusconi's likelihood of staying out of prison, and British lawmakers are having serious second thoughts about this whole European Union thing. The U.S. government has taken a strong dislike to Bitcoin , what with its anonymity and ease of use for stuff politicians don't like. Bitcoin was designed to withstand such opposition, but critics warn that legal targeting could cramp the digital currency's potential and keep it underground. Six Americans were killed by a suicide bomber in that winding-down war in Afghanistan. Among the off-message excesses of the U.S. Army sexual-assault prevention coordinator now under investiga ...

Aaron Swartz's Last Project: Open Source System To Securely & Anonymously Submit Documents To The Press

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:32:00 GMT

Source: www.techdirt.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
The New Yorker has announced a new anonymous document sharing system called Strongbox , that will allow people to anonymously and securely submit documents to reporters from the New Yorker. Other publications have tried to set up something like this -- often inspired by Wikileaks -- but for the most part, they've been full of security holes , sometimes big and serious ones. What may be more interesting than the fact that this system is being set up is the story behind it. It's based on DeadDrop , an open source system that was put together by Aaron Swartz and Kevin Poulsen. Poulsen has the backstory of DeadDrop here , which is well worth reading. Basically, he and Aaron worked on this project on and off for quite some time, and it was only just completed a few weeks before Aaron's death. The full story is worth reading, though here's a snippet: I wondered about this young tech-startup founder who put his energy into the debate over corporate-friendly copyright term extensions. That, and his co-creation of an anonymity project called Tor2Web, is what I had in mind when I approached him with the secure-submission notion. He agreed to do it with the understanding that the code would be open-source—licensed to allow anyone to use it freely—when we launched the system. He started coding immediately, while I set out to get the necessary servers and bandwidth at Conde Nast. The security model required that the system be under the compan ...

Aaron Swartz's Last Project: Open Source System To Securely & Anonymously Submit Documents To The Press (Techdirt)

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:32:00 GMT

Source: labs.ebuzzing.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
The New Yorker has announced a new anonymous document sharing system called Strongbox , that will allow people to anonymously and securely submit documents to reporters from the New Yorker. Other publications have tried to set up something like this -- often inspired by Wikileaks -- but for the most part, they've been full of security holes , sometimes big and serious ones. What may be more... Source : Techdirt Explore : Crises and conflicts , Open Source , Servers , Software , Tech Dirt ...

New Yorker launches Aaron Swartz’ Strongbox

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:54:05 GMT

Source: www.theinquirer.net --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
Secure spot for documents and messages ...

Strongbox: Aaron Swartz's last gift to Internet privacy

Thu, 16 May 2013 01:40:23 GMT

Source: www.zdnet.com --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Aaron Swartz is no longer with us, but his last major project, Strongbox, is bringing privacy to Internet users. ...

thank you, The New Yorker, Aaron Swartz, and Kevin Poulsen for creating an anony...

Thu, 16 May 2013 01:13:19 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
thank you, The New Yorker , Aaron Swartz , and Kevin Poulsen for creating an anonymous way to get information to the press. Introducing Strongbox, a Tool for Anonymous Document-Sharing www.newyorker.com This morning, launched Strongbox, an online place where people can send documents and messages to the magazine, and we, in turn, can offer them a reasonable amount of anonymity. It was put together by Aaron Swartz, who died in January, and Kevin Poulsen. ...

The New Yorker Launches Strongbox, a Project Developed by Aaron Swartz

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:30:25 GMT

Source: blogs.villagevoice.com --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
It's at once terribly exciting and infinitely sad: This morning, the New Yorker announced the arrival of Strongbox, a new tool for receiving sensitive documents and messages from readers. Commi... ...

New Yorker Creates Aaron Swartz's Open Source Strongbox

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:14:30 GMT

Source: static.reallysimple.org --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
New Yorker rolling out (and open-sourcing) an anonymous "news tip" strongbox based on work of the late Aaron Swartz. ...

Strongbox and Aaron Swartz: Open source, anonymous tips

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:21:43 GMT

Source: joeross.me --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Strongbox and Aaron Swartz: Open source, anonymous tips : There is plenty of Google news today coming out of their annual I/O conference, but this looks far more important and big-picture, if it actually gets used. ...