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After tech activist Aaron Swartz\u2019 death, Anonymous decided that the justice system in the US was deeply flawed. Swartz, who was an essential player in the design of web feed RSS and the social news site Reddit, was arrested by the federal government for downloading JSTOR academic journal articles shortly before his death. In response, Anonymous hacked into the US Sentencing Commission website, a move they called \u201cOperation Last Resort.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo weeks ago today, a line was crossed,\u201d said the group\u2019s message to those who asked. \u201cTwo weeks ago today, Aaron Swartz was killed. Killed because he faced an impossible choice. Killed because he was forced into playing a game he could not win \u2014 a twisted and distorted perversion of justice \u2014 a game where the only winning move was not to play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anonymous wouldn\u2019t state exactly was in the stolen files, but they did encourage thousands to download the files and hold onto them. They simply said that \u201cEveryone has secrets, and some things are not meant to be public.\u201d<\/p>\n
The file, however, was locked by a decryption key, one that Anonymous did not plan on distributing anytime soon.<\/p>\n
Anonymous wants to warn everyone who has a web presence \u2013 including large and small companies \u2013 that they \u201cmay be on the target list.\u201d<\/p>\n