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Thread: Harvard Ethics youngster charged with massive online theft !!!

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    Bug Harvard Ethics youngster charged with massive online theft !!!

    A 24-year-old, described as a researcher at Harvard University's Center for Ethics, has been arrested in Massachusetts, USA, on a raft of computer crime charges.

    The youngster, Aaron Swartz, has an interesting history, considering his age. He is a co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification, which was published just one month after his 14th birthday, and he joined the W3C's Resource Description Framework (RDF) working group just five months after that.

    Since that, he's done lots of other things. He describes himself as the cofounder of social networking site Reddit (perhaps a bit of a stretch, since Swartz joined Reddit at 19 when the original founders acquired his company); as the founder of online political activist site Demand Progress; and as the founder of the librarian's Wikipedia, the anyone-can-edit library catalog Open Library.

    The charges describe Swartz's alleged actions in a surprisingly well-written series of entry-level hacking How-Tos - which, incidentally, also make it compellingly obvious why entry-level hackers get caught. (Hint 1. Don't call your leeching program keepgrabbing.py. Hint 2. Don't call the next version of your leeching program keepgrabbing2.py.)
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    not fun ... looks like an intelligent guy .. wish he had done something creative
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    Thanks for the read Indra. I'm with Neo on this one. Too bad he couldn't have done something worthwhile with his talent.
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    The guy has brains just no wisdom, age brings wisdom...on that note im still waiting
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    Quote Originally Posted by JayCub View Post
    The guy has brains just no wisdom, age brings wisdom...on that note im still waiting
    me too my friend but beauty and brains don't go together
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    You call RSS not creative?

    Well, I suppose...
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    Quote Originally Posted by ted View Post
    me too my friend but beauty and brains don't go together
    Your lucky Ted. At least you got one out of the two choices. Me, I'm still waiting for the ferry to arrive on both counts!

 

 

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