It's been two years since Aaron Swartz died. To commemorate the anniversary of his suicide, a hacker with the nickname "Ulzr1z" hacked and defaced the websites of the Institute of Technology Massachusettss MIT.
The attackers or the attacker managed to distort 15's different website sites by adding the following text, which has already been removed:
./ Hacked by Ulzr1z
Follow me @ulzr1z
#OpAaronSwartz
Hacked!
The attackers managed to gain access to the WordPress admin panel, which controlled all of the Foundation's websites. With a Tweet they posted a screenshot to show access.
0x50776e6564 @ulzr1z
Admin Massachusetts Institute of Technology Panel, #MIT #Hacked Access to all other subdomain
15 distorted subdomains included Web pages for subjects such as Social Physics, and they all published Pastebin.
This is not the first time that MIT is a goal as a protest against the death of activist Aaron Swartz.
Two years ago, the 2013, the Anonymous attackers completely took down the webσελίδα to avenge Swartz's death.
Who was Aaron Swartz
At age 14 he became one of his authors RSS template (RDF Site Summary), a way to transmit information from a web page, usually news or announcements of new blog posts, quickly and easily to other pages or applications (syndication).
Later he actively participated in the organization Creative Commons which was founded by Professor Larry Lessee and his community Reddit, of which he was a co-founder.
Ο Aaron Swartz he attended Stanford for a year, but left his studies and then devoted himself to programming and political cyber-activism.
In 2009 it managed to download and then make available freely on the Internet about 20% of the documents from federal courts which were registered in the PACER database. Although typically supposed to be free, PACER charged for access, but Swartz managed to make it available to the general public.
A little later, in 2011, almost surreptitiously putting a laptop on the MIT network, he downloaded from the JSTOR database, which holds the content of hundreds of scientific journals by subscription, four million publications, many of which should also be freely available as common property.
The papers were released by him as a torrent file on the Internet, angering MIT and JSTOR. Swartz was arrested but released on bail, but charged with scam.
Both cases put Swartz in the crosshairs of the US authorities who launched an investigation against him.
Aaron Swartz was a prominent political activist in the field of digital rights and against state interference, and he had written and distributed quite freely programs.
