Question: Any chance govt was using threat of endless jail time to coerce Swartz to turn government hacker? It is, after all, how they work.
@SSNewberry That's one of the reasons I asked. But 2002 would have been earlier than I would have imagined their pitch. Maybe not, though.
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@emptywheel The community likes to recruit very young. 15 is not to young. -
@SSNewberry Particularly not for someone as brilliant as Aaron. -
@emptywheel He was gifted and prodigal. Brilliant is a commodity, Aaron had creativity, which is individual. -
@SSNewberry In any case, to clarify, pitch b4 2002 not impossible, later prosecution attempts would then be retaliation, not recruitment -
@emptywheel There I agree with you, the later attempts may well have been exactly that.
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