Except Swartz's master plan was downloading a bunch of PDFs to release, which is a copyright violation at best. Hammond was actively causing DDOS's, hacking servers, attacking his personal enemies, falsifying credentials, performing brute-forces, etc for fun and sometimes profit. These are two very different situations.
Sorry if it wasn't obvious I was cheerleading you. Fully agree. One of my pet peeves is that any criminal thinks himself an idealist and that's not fair to real idealism.
