Accused MIT hacker arraigned on state charges - BostonHerald.com

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"A former Harvard University fellow — already facing federal charges that he stole nearly 5 million academic articles from an online service — is now facing charges at the state level, according to the Middlesex County District Attorney’s office. Aaron Swartz, 25, of Cambridge, a former fellow at Harvard’s Center for Ethics and an Internet censorship activist, was arraigned today in Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn, charged with breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony, larceny over $250, and unauthorized access to a computer network....“It’s a separate case from the same incident,” said Jessica Venezia Pastore, a spokeswoman for District Attorney Gerard Leone. She noted that there is no federal counterpart to the breaking and entering charge...."

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http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_1130accused_mit_hacker_arraigned_on_state_charges/

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Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 12:10

Date published:

12/01/2011, 09:36