Harvard Ethics Youngster Charged With Massive On-line Theft

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Another good article by Paul Ducklin at SOPHOS:

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....Loosely speaking, the charges allege that Swartz used MIT's network (not Harvard's) to download a whole bucketload of academic articles from non-for-profit academic journal archive JSTOR in contravention of his entitlement, with the aim of republishing them without restriction....

Complete Article:
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/07/20/harvard-ethics-youngster-charged-with-leeching-off-mits-network/

Related article from Kaspersky News Service:
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/indictment-names-reddit-luminary-theft-data-mit-071911