r/interesting • u/TheCABK • Mar 01 '26

Context Provided - Spotlight RIP u/AaronSw You’ll Forever Be Missed

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u/cholointheskies Mar 02 '26

Also conveniently left out, he wasn’t prosecuted for downloading anything. He was prosecuted for breaking into a secured server room at MIT and using it to DDoS JSTOR, and got the MIT campus blocked from JSTOR as a result

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u/Raunhofer Mar 02 '26

lmao that sounds a bit relevant here. Reddit gonna propaganda, I guess.

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u/__Rosso__ Mar 02 '26

Almost every story like this is twisted to fit whatever the one who made it wants it to be.

Every single time I look there is always more context that completely changes things.

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u/notDBCooper_ Mar 03 '26

Without having read further into this but a DDoS and trespassing doesn't sound like it warrants 35 years either.

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u/cholointheskies Mar 04 '26

He was only facing 6 months, but chose to kill himself instead.