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Aaron Swartz Swartz in 2008 Born Aaron Hillel Swartz (1986-11-08) November 8, 1986 Highland Park, Illinois, U.S. Died January 11, 2013 (2013-01-11) (aged 26) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Cause of death Suicide by hanging Education Stanford University (dropped out) Occupations Software developer writer internet activist Organizations Creative Commons (development) Reddit (co-founder) Watchdog.net ...
In United States of America v.Aaron Swartz, Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist, was prosecuted for multiple violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA), after downloading academic journal articles through the MIT computer network from a source for which he had an account as a Harvard research fellow.
The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988, is one of the oldest computer worms distributed via the Internet, and the first to gain significant mainstream media attention. It resulted in the first felony conviction in the US under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. [1] It was written by a graduate student at Cornell University ...
Internet fraud is a type of cybercrime fraud or deception which makes use of the Internet and could involve hiding of information or providing incorrect information for the purpose of tricking victims out of money, property, and inheritance. [1] Internet fraud is not considered a single, distinctive crime but covers a range of illegal and ...
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Silk Road 2.0 shut down by FBI and Europol on 6 November 2014. [6] Silk Road was an online black market and the first modern darknet market. [7] It was launched in 2011 by its American founder Ross Ulbricht under the pseudonym " Dread Pirate Roberts ." As part of the dark web, [8] Silk Road operated as a hidden service on the Tor network ...
Another group of internet activists operating under the name "Anonymous" temporarily brought down websites of credit card giants MasterCard and Visa after they had stopped processing donations to ...