https://seykhel.org/en/tags/aaron-swartz/ Recent content in Aaron Swartz on Seykhel Hugo en-us Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0200 https://seykhel.org/en/blog/fix-the-world/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0200 https://seykhel.org/en/blog/fix-the-world/ <p>On his first day of work in San Francisco they took his laptop. Condé Nast had just bought Reddit, the founders had moved into the <em>Wired</em> offices, and the IT department collected the team&rsquo;s machines to copy the drives &ldquo;to ensure they had a copy of all our data&rdquo;. What came back were iBook G4s with a Condé Nast desktop, a corporate screensaver and spy software pre-installed: &ldquo;when they gave us the machines we didn&rsquo;t even have administrator access on them&rdquo;. The connection ran through the IT headquarters in Delaware, &ldquo;presumably the better to spy on us on&rdquo;. Aaron Swartz wrote all this on his blog two weeks later. By lunchtime on that first day he had locked himself in a bathroom stall and started crying.</p>