How the DHS is stalling the release of the Aaron Swartz files

Cory Doctorow 10:42 am Tue Dec 8, 2015

Lisa Rein writes, "When Jacob Appelbaum called for transparency in Aaron Swartz's FOIA case, he was talking about Kevin Poulsen's ongoing case against the Department of Homeland Security, a case that MIT managed to intervene in."

"MIT's interference has caused the documents to trickle out a few hundred or thousand at a time (from an estimated 14,500 or more documents that the government has said it will release 'on a rolling basis').

"Kevin explains his case in detail with complete links to everything he has obtained so far, including the famous keepgrabbing.py script, which is now fully transcribed and available on Github.

Kevin Poulsen at Aaron Swartz Day 2014 – Details On Poulsen v. DHS [Lisa Rein/Aaron Swartz Day]

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