Anonymous is claiming to have struck a blow in Aaron
Swartz's memory. It has hacked the website of the US Sentencing
Commission and posted a long manifesto and a group of files named
after Supreme Court Justices. The manifesto suggests that the files
contain embarrassing secrets and says that the secrets will be
revealed in installments unless Congress adopts sentencing and
computer crime changes.
Exactly what the files contain the screed leaves uncertain:
"The contents are various and we won't ruin the
speculation by revealing them. Suffice it to say, everyone has
secrets, and some things are not meant to be public."
It's possible that this is an elaborate publicity ploy. The
manifesto's authors don't exactly say they have information
stolen from Supreme Court justices. And they are careful to suggest
that if investigators find no sign of intrusion, well, that's
just proof that Anonymous is "far more ambitious, and far more
capable" than investigators think: "Over
