>>11582917Aaron Swartz broke into MIT, hooked up a computer in a wiring closet to the MIT network, and then proceeded to automatically download so many articles from JSTOR that it slowed down their entire site and triggered alarms at both JSTOR and MIT.
MIT literally bugged the closet with video cameras and caught footage of Swartz committing the crime, and he was arrested and charged with like a dozen federal felonies. He would have gotten like 35 years, but the courts offered him a 6 month plea deal. Instead, he decided to go to trial and killed himself before it was held.
>>11582924Dipshit's first mistake was getting caught in the most predictable way possible. Dipshit's second mistake was refusing an excellent deal that would have reduced his prison sentence by literally 98%.
