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To: Ron who wrote (6255)	11/10/2013 2:52:33 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Respond to of 6763

Good article. The U.S. pubic has always had a love-hate relationship with hackers, particularly the "children." Not so the Feds: Twenty years later, the U. S. leads the world in harsh sentences. "There's a real draconian intervention with hackers," says Gabriella Coleman, a Canadian university professor who is compiling the international numbers. "Look at Aaron Swartz — that wasn't even a hack. He broke the terms-of-service agreement. They made it a hack because he had a manifesto about information being free."