A giant faceless corp doing it for money?
Totally okay and very cool.
An individual doing it altruisticly for the betterment of society?
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
He actually broke into a secure MIT site at a building near Harvard Campus to connect via ethernet cable in a wiring cabinet, on multiple occasions.
And the maximum for those crimes might have been 35 to 50 years but he hadn’t actually been tried, yet, and his defence asked for a plea deal of only 6 months.
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So this is how we find out you use light mode.
implying it would be impossible for me to have pulled this as a secondary screenshot
The internets favorite son.
Money and importance is the value of a person
Motive also matters. Meta did it for greed. Swartz did it for humanity. The former is understandable, the latter unacceptable.
Well yes, theres that too, but it’s also not like Zuckbot snuck into Anna’s Library building and broke into a secure MIT facility overseen by federal authorities and adjacent to Harvard Campus.
And if that had happened Zuckerducker definitely wouldn’t have offed himself before the trial because his plea deal for 6 months was rejected, that was a huge misplay, imo.
If I remember correctly he didn’t even try to fight it and just offed himself. Also his charges weren’t piracy it was breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony.
According to authorities, Swartz downloaded the documents through a laptop connected to a networking switch in a controlled-access wiring closet at MIT.
35 years was the maximum he could have gotten but he likely would have been imprisoned for a few years at most. His defence actually opted for only 6 months in a rejected plea deal.
Doesn’t matter. The case is a massive example of prosecutorial power overreach.
Sure, yes, but you can say that honestly without lying about a nonexistent 35 or 50 year sentence.
what a strange comment. i just did.
The picture you posted claims he faced 35 years. He was never sentenced, he committed suicide in his apartment before his trial took place.
Girl why do I care if it was a sentence lmao. It was still a huge overreach.
