Thanks Again Aaron Swartz!

Last edited Mon May 20, 2013, 07:34 PM - Edit history (1)

"Since WikiLeaks’ submission system went offline in late 2010, journalists and hacktivists have struggled to replicate its drop box for anonymous leaks. Meanwhile, the Obama administration has prosecuted more leaker's under the Espionage Act than all other presidencies combined and the Justice Department has spied on the Associated Press to out its sources, as the media gropes for tools to counteract that surveillance.

For the past two years, the media group Conde Nast has been quietly taking on that problem with the help of a notable programmer: the late free information activist Aaron Swartz. On Wednesday the company’s New Yorker magazine released Strongbox, a surveillance-resistant, anonymous, open-source WikiLeaks-style online dropbox for tips and leaks that Swartz only finished coding a month before his death."


http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/05/15/opening-the-lid-on-strongbox-the-new-yorker-anonymous-dropbox-coded-by-aaron-swartz/

I'm aware this news has probably been posted in LBN at some point. But I personally didn't know much about Aaron's story, until last night. I was listening to "Occupy News Radio" pod cast and they played Arron's "How We Stopped SOPA".
(listen to it here) http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/14/freedom_to_connect_aaron_swartz_1986


Every time I log on to the web for the rest of my life, I will just for a second think of this young man, so brilliant and full of promise.

Cut down at the beginning of his life by a politically ambitious prosecutors machinations, another gift to humankind taken away by greedy, power hungry sleaze.

It is a sobering reminder that this medium we take so much for granted is under constant attack by those who hate the freedom and power it gives us.