Anonymous Replaced MIT Website with Memorial for Aaron Swartz

Overnight, the "Hacktivist" group Anonymous, hacked MIT's website, replacing their normal home page with  a memorial to Aaron Swartz who was found dead this last weekend from an apparent suicide. The image of the hacked MIT home page (below) speaks volumes:

Aaron was a political activist and known for helping create the popular forum, commenting site Reddit. Aaron, to his credit, was a stern advocate of a free and open internet as am I.

Moreover, Anonymous speaks of the possibility that this wasn't a suicide but a clever (or not so clever) government action. While I don't know about that nor do I want to speculate, stranger things have happened.

Now MIT is announcing it's own internal investigation into any role they may have had in his death and has tweeted, along with other academics copyrighted journal articles in an effort to honor Aaron Swartz.

More on this as news develops...

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