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FD-302 (Rev. 10-6-95) -l- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION bo b7C b7/F Date of transcription 02/19/2009 On February 17, 2008, sa receives an email from Ld Administrative Office o @-US Courts, with links to two published articles regarding the compromise of the PACER system. On February 12, 2009, [i published an article in THE NEW YORK TIMES titled "An Effort to Upgrade a Court Archive System to Free and Easy". For the article, PD —] interviewed [__Jand AARON SWARTZ regarding the compromise of the PACER system. The following information is found in the article: urged fellow activists to go to the seventeen libraries offering the free trial, download as many court documents as they could, and send them to him for republication on the Web. SWARTZ readL____Jappeal and downloaded an estimated twenty percent (20%) of the PACER database. a Government Printing Office official, told librarians that the security of the PACER service was compromised and the FBI was conducting an investigation. Lawyers for[ _|and SWARTZ told them they had broken no laws. On February 13, 2009,L______—idjand published an article in The LEDE, NOTES ON THE NEWS, FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES titled "Steal These Federal Records - Okay, Not Literally". The following information is found in the article: published an online manifesto about freeing PACER documents, where he called for a Thumb Drive Corps to go to libraries with small thumb drives, plug them into computers, download as many court documents as they could, and send them to so that he can translate them into a format that GOOGLE's search software can read. Investigation on 02/17/2009 at Manassas, VA Fite + | | Date dictated N/A by sal | This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. bo b7C b7E bi7] rt