Call to action kicks off second Aaron Swartz hackathon

On the occasion of what would’ve been Aaron Swartz’s 27th birthday, the hacker who was driven to suicide earlier this year by government prosecution was memorialized with a clay statue of his likeness at the Internet Archive.

The 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 10 petabytes of data archived for free in October 2012.