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Re:The four lamest excuses in MIT’s report on Aaron Swartz by chaostheory on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:27PM (#6135841)
Yes but it would probably weaken the prosecution's case at the very least.
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Re:The four lamest excuses in MIT’s report on Aaron Swartz by pdonis on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @04:20PM (#6136568)
it would probably weaken the prosecution's case at the very least

I can see one thing that would have weakened the prosecution's case: if MIT had been able to say definitely that Swartz's access to the MIT network was authorized. However, I'm not sure MIT could have said that definitely.

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