The hacktivist group Anonymous hacked the website of US Sentencing Commission to avenge the death of Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide. The site of the commission, an independent agency of the of the judicial branch, was hacked early on Saturday and replaced with a message which warns, when Aaron Swartz committed suicide two weeks ago "a line was crossed." Anonymous say they've infiltrated several government systems and copied secret information that they know threaten to make public. Family and friends of Swartz, who helped to create Reddit and RSS, say he killed himself after he was hounded by federal prosecutors. Officials say he helped to post millions of court documents for free online and that he illegally downloaded millions of academic articles from an online clearinghouse.
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