It’s not that clear cut and I would recommend listening to the Behind The Bastards episode about him: Behind the Bastards: Part One: Christmas Hero Episode: Aaron Swartz
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RGB3x3@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 6 months ago
Dkarma@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Most of these guys they just offer jobs to. This was needless. No wonder China is kicking out ass on the cyber front
Thorry84@feddit.nl 6 months ago
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.
K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I mean thousands of war criminals were offered jobs after ww2 so I doubt they would care about a little red tape just hire them into the black no one needs to know
el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Ah my sweet summer child…how wonderful it must be to live in your world.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s still a hell of a sentence for a B&E
meliaesc@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Mm. Breaking and entering to share publicly funded research is different than B&E with the threat of violence…
refalo@programming.dev 6 months ago
still… 35 years? obviously there is more missing information.
nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 6 months ago
It wasn’t 35 years, it was 6 months with a plea deal