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by mjn 4498 days ago
> The developer is Gregory Maxwell, aka nullc.

This guy seems to be everywhere! He's a prolific Wikipedia contributor (administrator + many thousands of edits), and was also the guy behind the dump of a ton of pre-1923 JSTOR documents to the Pirate Bay, which in part helped pressure JSTOR to un-paywall its old/PD articles (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/07/swartz-supporter-...).

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The guy was amazing on Wikipedia.