Springer Link hacked in honor of Aaron Swartz. Thousands of articles downloaded.

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Submitted by arrow.stanza on Monday January 06, 2014 @08:51PM

arrow.stanza writes: A bug in the website of the science publisher Springer Link was exploited to automatically download low resolution copies of hundreds of thousands of scientific articles. Some journals were downloaded almost completely, including the historical 'Zeitschrift für Physik'. The material is published in honor of Aaron Swartz in springer-lta.co.nf.

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