29 January 2013

Aaron Swartz Protesters Take Over Government Websites, Install Asteroids

Aaron Swartz Protesters Take Over Government Websites, Install Asteroids

As part of its ongoing protest of the U.S. government's prosecution of computer programmer and activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide on Jan. 11, Anonymous this weekend hacked the website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, www.ussc.gov. The initial hack was standard Anonymous fare, replacing the USSC homepage with a video in which a creepy computerized voice spouted pompous pseudo-revolutionary threats. .......