Cybersecurity
MIT Probes Role in Case Leading to Web Activist’s Death
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is probing its role in the U.S. case against Aaron Swartz, the Internet activist who killed himself as he faced a federal computer-fraud trial and the possibility of jail.
Swartz, 26, was accused in 2011 of gaining unauthorized access to MIT’s network to put free copies online of subscription-only journal articles. After his death, MIT professors were among the many academics paying tribute to him by posting their own work online without charge.