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divdiv class=postBody txtWrap section=txt readability=64div class=cnet-image-div image-MEDIUM float-right readability=2a href=http://i.i.cbsi.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/11/09/2013_Aaron_Swartz_statue_Internet_Archive_.jpg class=lightboxItimg class=cnet-image src=http://asset1.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/11/09/2013_Aaron_Swartz_statue_Internet_Archive__270x459 .jpg alt= width=270 height=459//ap class=image-captionAaron Swartz's statue at the Internet Archive, unveiled at the memorial presentation on his 27th birthday./pspan class=image-credit(Credit:Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)/span/divpSAN FRANCISCO -- On the occasion of what would've been Aaron Swartz's 27th birthday, the hacker who was a href=/8301-1023_3-57563642-93/internet-activist-aaron-swartz-commits-suicide/driven to suicide earlier this year/a by government prosecution was memorialized with a clay statue of his likeness at the Internet Archive./ppThe half-sized representation of Swartz bears his scruffy, unshaven likeness and neck-length hair, but also an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) T-shirt and a laptop with an inscription on its lid: 10,000,000,000,000,000 Internet Archive 2012 bytes archived. The Internet Archive crossed a href=http://blog.archive.org/2012/10/26/10000000000000000-bytes-archived/10 petabytes of data archived for free/a in October 2012./ppEmployees of the non-profit, headquartered on Funston Avenue in the often-foggy Richmond District, are honored with statues after they've worked for the Archive for at least three years. Joining the 100 or so clay denizens of the Great Room on Friday evening were around 150 friends and hackers inspired by Swartz, who gathered to remember his life and inaugurate the a href=https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Worldwide_Aaron_Swartz_Memorial_Hackathon_Series#P rojects_to_Work_onsecond worldwide hackathon/a since his death. /ppBut there was no fog in air as the Internet Archive's founder and director, a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_KahleBrewster Kahle/a, explained the goal of the hackathon: to further coding projects that aligned with Swartz's values, an open and safe Internet./ppWe are making the Internet a safer place, Kahle said of the Internet Archive's work, by resisting National Security Letters, and by protecting reader's privacy by cloaking and obfuscating their IP addresses. /ppHe added that the Internet Archive is also making the Internet more open. Browser extensions supported by the archive help people add public safety codes to the archive's database, an important task because although the codes are public, companies have created what Kahle described as a multi-billion dollar business in forcing people to pay to receive printed copies of them./ppTurning his attention to potential projects for the gathered hackers to work on, he noted that only 54 of the top 1,000 Web sites were protected by a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_SecureHTTPS/a, which makes it harder for snoopers to read your Internet traffic./ppI think this is completely doable, Kahle said, suggesting a project to raise that number./ppKahle wasn't the only speaker to encourage action. Cindy Cohn, the director of the EFF, took Google to task for not being a more vocal advocate for Aaron's Law, the proposed a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_ActComputer Fraud and Abuse Act/a reforms. The CFAA was used by the office of Carmen Ortiz, the US attorney for Massachusetts, as the basis to prosecute Swartz./pdiv class=cnet-image-div image-LARGE2 float-none readability=4img class=cnet-image src=http://asset2.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/11/09/2013_Aaron_Swartz_Brewster_Kahle_610x359.jpg alt= width=610 height=359/p class=image-captionInternet Archive director Brewster Kahle encourages the audience at the Aaron Swartz memorial on what would've been Swartz's 27th birthday on Friday, Nov. 8, 2013, to hack in the name of the values of openness and safety./pspan class=image-credit(Credit:Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)/span/divpBad is Oracle for actively lobbying to strengthen the CFAA, Cohn said. Worse is Google for not standing up. They won't help us fix the law that killed one of our own. But, she added, it's not just Google./ppFew of the major tech companies, she said, have lent time, money, or resources to reform the CFAA. She said that the EFF has hired its first lobbyist to pursue CFAA reform, something that the online rights group has never done before./ppAnd while she thanked the Aaron's Law authors, Democrats Rep. Zoe Lofgren and Sen. Ron Wyden, and its Republican co-sponsor Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, she questioned why the House Minority Leader had not taken a more active role on Aaron's Law./ppI'd love for our district representative, Nancy Pelosi, to be a leader on this, she said to loud applause from the audience./pdiv class=cnet-image-div image-LARGE2 float-none readability=1img class=cnet-image src=http://asset2.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/11/09/2013_Aaron_Swartz_Cindy_Cohn_610x524.jpg alt= width=610 height=524/p class=image-captionEFF director Cindy Cohn asks the audience at the Second Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon to push their politicians to support the CFAA reform known as Aaron's Law./pspan class=image-credit(Credit:Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)/span/divpNeither Google nor Nancy Pelosi's office immediately returned requests for comment. CNET will update the story when we hear back from them./ppDespite the somber reason for gathering, Kahle implored those who planned on participating in the hackathon to remain optimistic. /ppLet's celebrate openness, he exclaimed./ppiThe Second Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon takes place in San Francisco at a href=https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Worldwide_Aaron_Swartz_Memorial_Hackathon_SeriesNo isebridge/a, and around the world at a href=https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Worldwide_Aaron_Swartz_Memorial_Hackathons18 other locations/a, throughout the weekend./i/p/div/divbrbrcentera href=http://www.wizardrss.comPowered By WizardRSS.com/a | a href=http://www.wizardrss.comFull Text RSS Feed/a | a href=http://www.amazon.com/RFID-Blocking-Cards-Identity-Protector/dp/B00CJHZLEWRFID/a | a href=http://www.wpzonbuilder.comAmazon Affiliate/a/center