Aaron Swartz commits suicide - The Tech

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Computer activist Aaron H. Swartz committed suicide in New York City yesterday, Jan. 11, according to his uncle, Michael Wolf, in a comment to The Tech. Swartz was 26. Swartz, who was one of the founding members of Reddit and co-authored RSS 1.0 at the age of 1, was facing hacking charges for hacking into and downloading millions of documents form JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/ .
 Aaron Swartz commits suicide - The Tech