"Now, cybersecurity is important. I think the government should be finding these vulnerabilities and helping to fix them. But they're doing the opposite of that. They're finding the vulnerabilities and keeping them secret so they can abuse them. So if we do care about cybersecurity, what we need to do is focus the debate not on these kids in a basement who aren't doing any damage -- but on the powerful people, the people paying lots of money to find these security holes who then are doing damage and refusing to fix them." — Aaron Swartz, Internet activist, in his last lengthy interview, before his untimely death by suicide
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57580583-38/film-war-for-web-warns-of-cispa-sopa-future-threats/ / Aaron Swartz's struggles antihacking anti-hacking anti hacking law Hollywood lobby lobbying surveillance proposals Internet users users' rights under attack forthcoming documentary film "War for the Web" physical infrastructure of the Internet, fat underwater cables living room routers proposals CISPA Net neutrality SOPA Stop Online Piracy Act security people talk about privacy regional duopolies Cameron Brueckner, film film's director interconnected filmmaker filmmakers 17 lengthy interviews last extensive Internet activist committing suicide in January 24 hours raw footage rough cut finished end of the year, launched a fundraising campaign Indiegogo that ends May 1 three-minute trailer charged Computer Fraud and Abuse Act criminal trial years over a decade federal prison alleged illegal downloads of academic journal articles filmmakers interview after his indictment U.S. government posed a more serious cybersecurity threat than hackers cracked other countries' computers cracked into military installationsinitiated cyberwar cybersecurity is important /
