Jacob Appelbaum in Germany

Patrick Mylund Nielsen cryptography at patrickmylund.com
Tue Dec 31 15:05:58 PST 2013


On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:54 PM, James A. Donald <jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:

>
> Just look at the smirk on Schwartz's face.  Obviously he never expected to
> be punished.  He committed suicide not because a year in a country club
> prison was terribly harsh punishment, but because it was revealed he was
> not above the law after all.
>
> If anyone in the world was prepared to suffer for his beliefs, that person
> was not Aaron Schwartz.
>
>
>  As to Swartz he didn't commit any real crime so he never was, or pretended
>> to be, 'above the law'.
>>
>
> Accessing someone else's computers without permission to obtain the
> information therein is trespass.  The powerful trespass against the less
> powerful.  He had mistaken ideas about how powerful he was.
>
>
Just so people on this list are aware, James is either trolling or really
hated Aaron for some reason. Earlier this year on the randombit crypto
mailing list, he stated that it was a good thing Aaron killed himself
seeing as he "needed killing."

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