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Re:FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than ... by JohnFen on Friday December 14, 2018 @01:32PM (#18683229)
"Aaron knew he was literally stealing, according to the law"

He was? I may be misremembering, but I don't think that was the crime he was accused of. I believe the crime was bypassing access control systems.

And even that accusation seriously stretched credulity.

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Re:FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than ... by jmalicki on Friday December 14, 2018 @06:40PM (#18685923)
His indictment: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/217117-united-states...

Among other things, he was charged with the heinous crime of modifying his MAC address on his laptop's WiFi so that he could obtain a new IP address.

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Re:FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than ... by ryanlol on Saturday December 15, 2018 @03:03AM (#18687575)
>And even that accusation seriously stretched credulity.

How did that accusation seriously stretch credulity? The technical means may have been simple, but it's unquestionable that he did so intending to circumvent access controls.

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Re:FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than ... by JohnFen on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @12:45PM (#18708649)
Because he was not engaging in the sort of activity that the law was intended to address.
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