hmmn i see it as a hack and his other work was similar he was breaking the user agreement as worded by lawyer types > isnt that a hack? plus they were all scuuurrred he was going to leak the docs he downloaded so.... thats kind of a hack it was presumed becasue of past predictors of behavior that he would negotiate with JSTOR to change there ways which is umn super-neoliberal-capitalistic is stealing a hack? - i think in general that the term hacking has expanded - i think he was hacking the system >>> maybe we disagree on the words expansion ??? heres some wordy words mayb u wld like to read re aarons work with others https://public.resource.org/crime ++++++++++ hope it is very cold in poland and you are incredibly unhappy > berlin is nice On 1/7/14, rysiek <rysiek@hackerspace.pl> wrote:
Dnia wtorek, 7 stycznia 2014 19:36:44 Cari Machet pisze:
umn i just met u at #30c3 i know who u r so... aaahhh memories... names .... ppl... buses ... berlin... i was making a little joke and calling u poland sorry i happen to love poland generally so i like to talk about it i guess
AAAAHH! Now I got all the puzzles in my view. OHAI, CARI. :) /me facepalms hard/
how do you conclude that aaron was not "hacking" PLEASE EXPLAIN ???????
Well... There are two ways the word "hacking" is used most often. 1. breaking into computer systems and generally doing some computery-evil stuff 2. doing some amazing technical things
So, what Aaron did was in no way fitting the 2., right? He just put a laptop
in a closet and downloaded stuff.
Neither does it fit 1. -- he did not break any kind of security systems, cracked passwords, etc., he just put a laptop on a network that had access to these documents and downloaded the documents. That's all.
On a different level, it was indeed consistent with hacker ethos, esp. "information wants to be free". But that doesn't mean it was a "hack", in any meaning of the word.
Also, inb4 "hacker means X - no, it means Y" shitstorm
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