Swartz Suicide escalation

Source: Internet
Author: User
Keywords Swartz suicide
Tags anonymous internet internet + social social news twitter account website

Absrtact: Reddit co-founder Ahrenswortz was found dead in a New York home last week, as the 26-year-old American social news website Reddit co-founder Ahrenswortz (Aaron Swartz) sparked an internet uproar over the MIT website suspected of being

Reddit co-founder Allen Swartz was found dead in a New York home last week at the age of 26

Aaron Swartz, the US social news website Reddit co-founder Allen Swartz, triggered the Internet uproar, and the MIT website was suspected to have been hacked off.

The MIT site shutdown may be related to a hacker organization called "Anonymous," because a Twitter account named Anonymousirc (without real-name authentication) posted a strange message: "By the way, Mit.edu is closed." and appended the Twitter account of Anonymous and Swartz to the tweets.

Although the release of this message ANONYMOUSIRC account is not authenticated, but it is in the text of the anonymous account is certified, has a certain degree of credibility. However, do not rule out this tweet is just a booing.

The MIT principal Rafael Reif (L. Rafael Reif) said earlier today that it would conduct an internal investigation at MIT on Swartz's theft of more than 4 million documents from the JSTOR database.

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