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Government Encouraged Suicides
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2016-01-15 17:29:42
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Anyone ever looked into the alarmingly frequent "cyber-crime" suicides?
I'm looking specifically at four right now:
1. Aaron Swartz - Co-founder of Reddit, killed himself January 11, 2013 after being indicted (bullied) by the feds for illegally downloading JSTOR articles.
2. Jonathan James - First American juvenile incarcerated for cyber-crime at age 16 after he stole software and user info from NASA and the DOD. Interesting however, is the fact that James didn't kill himself for another eight years, after police raided his home again looking for connections to a hack that targeted department chain TJX. Police recovered evidence that James was depressed and owned a firearm (which they left in his custody). The only data linking James to the TJX hack were the initials J.J., an alias used by a member of the group which hacked TJX. James shot himself on May 18, 2008, the note he left behind states he thought he was going to be prosecuted for crimes he had nothing to do with.
3. Ian Murdock - Died just a few weeks ago on Dec 28th, 2015. He had an altercation with police, apparently they raided his home for reasons which are not clear. Ian claimed in a tweet it was for "knowing on his neighbor's door" (probably an auto correct for knocking). Ian was beaten up by police and sent to the hospital. He was subsequently charged with assaulting the officer who had assaulted him. Ian posted on twitter that he was going to commit suicide on the morning of Dec 28th, but retracted this statement later in the day. Official details of his death have not been released.
4. Lance Moore - This one's a little difficult to piece together, as there's almost no info on Moore's death. I had to dig for hours to even come up with his last name. Allegedly, Moore was an AT&T contractor who uploaded a bunch of private files to fileape, which were then obtained and published by lolzsec. Lance died before his case went to trial, sometime in 2011.