http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/10/06/1411216/FBI-Investigates-Liberator-of-Court-Records?from=rss
<quote> ... Aaron Swartz decided to capture 19,856,160 records by simply installing a small PERL script at the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals library in Chicago — a script which uploaded a public document every three seconds to Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service.... the FBI took interest in the programmer responsible for this effort and ran his name through government databases. How did he discover this? ... </quote> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
