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One bit of Aaron Swartz's legacy: Fixing a bad law?

As predicted, the suicide of Aaron Swartz, the widely admired hacktivist who helped create RSS and Reddit, has provoked at least one lawmaker to seek changes in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or CFAA -- the law that federal prosecutors were using to try to send Swartz to prison.

By Jon Healey

January 16, 2013

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