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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/10/06/1411216/FBI-Investigates-Liberator-of-Court-Records?from=rss
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... 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? ...
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