A federal judge has ruled that the estate of late entrepreneur and Internet activist Aaron Swartz may release to Congress and the public some of the information gathered by the lawyers preparing his defense in his hacking case.
Swartz was charged in July 2011 in the District of Massachusetts with the unauthorized use of Massachusetts Institute of Technology networks to download millions of articles from JSTOR, a nonprofit online archive of scholarly literature. Swartz killed himself in January, reportedly despondent at the prospect that he would serve prison time.
