"However, this is an inconvenient truth that is not being disseminated," he said.
"People should remember that these diseases are hard to disseminate," he said, adding that anthrax spores, for example, are a powderlike substance that is not contagious.
(The case is continuing; Mr. Swartz returned the hard drives with the documents to JSTOR and promised that the material would not be disseminated; he has pleaded not guilty).
"If any elected member of Congress went down to talk to the president, I think they would be shocked and chagrined to know that their information was being disseminated," he continued.
"I know this is Apple's world and we just live in it, but we did fight a lot of battles over hundreds of years not to have one man deciding what people can disseminate," he says.
In Scotland, a telephone support service has now been set up to help support those using the books, which can be freely copied and disseminated, he added.
"It's not really a social media site because you can't upload anything to the site, you can't post your own material and these aren't really facts he's disseminating," he tells BBC Trending radio.
"The organization is different, but Ari knows what he needs to know, and he disseminates it well," he said.
He says he receives news of six to eight employment opportunities each month, generally before they are made public, and he disseminates them through the Headsets and Highballs job edition e-mail list.
Much of his international fame during his lifetime would be based on the widely disseminated prints he produced from the 300 or so etchings he made over the course of his career.
