MIT website turned into memorial by Anonymous hackers in wake of Reddit co-founder's suicide

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The majority of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) websites became inaccessible in memory of RSS and Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz on Sunday evening. Anonymous hacked MIT to leave a message honouring the 26-year-old Internet freedom activist who hanged himself on Friday.

Swartz was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment after struggling for years against a legal system that he felt had not caught up to the information age.

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