On: Aaron Swartz, American hero

[eykanal]

I like the perspective of comparing Aaron to older "hacker/visionaries" of decades gone by. I wasn't aware of some of those brushes with the law.

[danso → eykanal]

I think it's safe to say that Woz would've been in prison long before he could've joined Apple were things as unrelaxed as they are nowadays...the ticking bomb prank comes to mind.

And the selling of the blue boxes seems as wrong as what Swartz was accused of...and less altruistic too.

[edlinfan → eykanal]

Not to mention the comparison of the Pentagon Papers to the Manning cables leak.