Reddit Co-Founder Facing Fraud Charges for Data Theft
- First Posted: Jul 19 2011 14:05 PM
- Updated: 8 minutes ago
FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU! There is no rage comic that can properly express how Aaron Swartz must feel about the fraud charges pressed against him.
The 24-year-old co-founder of Reddit, the best place to kill five hours online, has been charged with stealing data from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and JSTOR, an online database of academic journals that's basically the reason anyone graduates from university anymore. Aaron Swartz is accused of breaking into M.I.T. and stealing some four million documents from JSTOR. Swartz has been charged with wire fraud and computer fraud and could face as much as 35 years in prison if convicted, which would just fly by if he had access to Reddit on the inside.















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